Why the loneliest climate warrior in the Senate finally has hope.
When I asked, after 279 speeches, what his absolute must-haves are in order to support the bill, Whitehouse said that “it’s actually nature that is setting the must-haves.” The idea is to put in place “all the tools necessary” to achieve “1.5 degrees or less of planetary overheating.” But for Whitehouse, it’s not just the what, but the when.
Joe Manchin, the most conservative Democratic senator who represents home-state energy interests, has saidWhen I asked Whitehouse how he and his climate hawk colleagues would navigate the Manchin issue, he quoted from the Steven Spielberg film“When the folks needed to go out and close the deal for the votes on the Fourteenth Amendment,” he said, “and they asked Lincoln, ‘What are we supposed to do?’ And he stood up and said, ‘I am the President of the United States of America, clothed with...
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