WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, sent a letter (https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-09-01-Letter-to-FJC-Climate-Guidance-FINAL.pdf) last week to the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), the research and education agency of the federal judiciary, on its decision to abandon evidence-based climate science under pressure from the fossil fuel industry.
In May, Whitehouse wrote to the judiciary (https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-05-19-Letter-to-AO-Climate-Junkets.pdf) a...