Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee; House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries; and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will hold a press conference to sound the alarm about the skyrocketing costs of climate change and to condemn Trump’s abandonment of climate action.
The U.N.’s 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the largest and most important forum for world governments to address the global climate crisis, is currently taking place in Belém, Brazil, but the Trump Administration failed to participate in—and actively undermined Congressional presence at—this year’s gathering, a first in the 30-year history of these U.N. climate talks. Ranking Member Whitehouse was the only U.S. federal government official to attend COP30.
As electricity costs surge because Republicans are suppressing clean power, and home insurance premiums balloon because Republicans refuse to address climate risks, the corrupt Trump administration continues to label climate change a “hoax” and has abdicated U.S. leadership on climate—despite a majority of Americans supporting action on climate change.