Opinion | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Jared Huffman: The Green New Deal vote shows Republicans would rather mock climate change than challenge big lobbying groups. - NBCNewsTHINK
even in the Wall Street Journal. And there are numerous other proposals in the middle which could be pulled into a meaningful bill to help us solve this looming problem, before it gets even more out of hand.
If corporate America is serious about addressing climate change, it needs to take a hard look at lobbying groups like the Chamber that claim to represent corporate America while opposing all these legislative proposals.
Denial is no longer an option; mockery of the Green New Deal is not a constructive answer. It is time for serious action. We need to see a constructive proposal that keeps us from exceeding a 1.5 degrees Celsius global temperature increase. These big business lobbying groups either need to align their efforts with the business community they supposedly represent and become part of the solution, or they need to come clean about who is really funding and driving their climate agenda — and own that it's hardly a majority of their members.Sheldon Whitehouse is a U.S. Senator serving Rhode Island.
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