Democrat Senator Whitehouse calls climate denial the “biggest fraudulent operation in American history.
Here’s what he won’t tell you:
Whitehouse’s votes have funneled millions to an environmental NGO that has paid $2,686,800 to his wife directly or to her firm.
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— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) September 24, 2025
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“We haven’t lifted this issue up into the political space,” said Whitehouse, who has spoken more than 300 times on the Senate floor about climate impacts. “We need to recover a little bit from the tepid tone that the Biden administration tended to operate in.”
Biden officials focused on “green jobs and polar bears” instead of directly criticizing the role that oil and gas companies played in influencing the climate debate through “dark money” campaign donations, he said.
“What we have is the biggest fraudulent operation in American history, the climate-denial operation running next to one of the biggest corruption operations in American history — the dark money fossil-fuel influence operation,” he added.
President Trump — who has repeatedly castigated climate-change efforts, including in a UN speech Tuesday — makes the debate have an “actual central-casting quality of true villainy,” he said.
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NEWS: Whitehouse wants Democrats to abandon Biden’s “tepid tone” on climate
- Whitehouse, now the top Dem on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Democrats must frame climate not just as an environmental concern, but as a fight against corruption and rising household costs.
- He criticized Biden officials for focusing on “green jobs and polar bears” instead of naming O&G companies as central to what he called “the biggest fraudulent operation in American history, the climate-denial operation, running next to one of the biggest corruption operations in American history—the dark money fossil-fuel influence operation.”
