Senate confirmation hearings this week turned into pop quizzes for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. How would ...

Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rebuked Biden for giving the speech four years too late, adding he would've been ...

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency drew attention at his confirmation hearing ...

WASHINGTON -- Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin denied that he will favor industry over the environment and declared ...

On Thursday we got a more detailed look at the Trump administration’s plans for the environment through two key nominees.

GOP former House member Lee Zeldin, picked to be EPA administrator, pledged strict interpretation of the country's ...

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's ...

The cost of meeting our net zero targets is rising all the time, and it is now hitting us all directly in our pockets ...

As President-elect Donald Trump takes direct aim at federal climate policy ... of big corporate interests,” U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, told The Guardian ...

(Simon Mundy) Last November’s COP29 summit in Baku concluded in disappointment for developing nation representatives who had hoped for a radical expansion of international climate finance.

The group, the Judicial Conference, sent identical letters Thursday to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who chairs the Judiciary subcommittee on federal courts, and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., the ...

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ... lead the planet to climate safety. No matter what comes over the next four years, I will always have Rhode Islanders’ backs,” said Whitehouse.