January 5, 2012

Two Senate Climate Hawks Team Up for a Must-See Colloquy

CP, Climate Progress


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Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Al Franken (Democrat, Minnesota) recently spent an hour on the floor of the U.S. Senate repudiating climate change denialists and arguing for serious U.S. action on climate change. . .

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