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The American people want lower energy bills, and they want more clean energy. Our permitting reform plan gets us a long way toward both of those goals.

The fossil fuel industry wants to hide the truth, but we can’t let them. We’ll continue to shine a spotlight on the industry’s climate denial and dark money schemes, until Republicans see that their big polluter donors’ lies aren’t worth the money.

There’s a deliberate scheme to raise your energy costs. Who’s responsible? Trump and Big Oil.

🚨BREAKING🚨 @whitehouse.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov & @epw.senate.gov release a damning new report exposing how Trump’s corruption with fossil fuel corporations is costing American families. Big Oil will gain $190 BILLION (and counting) from Trump’s taxpayer-funded subsidies and handouts. WATCH 👇

Nuclear energy is our largest source of zero-carbon energy. To develop nuclear energy responsibly and credibly, we need safe solutions for permanent waste.

Two bills being considered today are the product of bipartisan cooperation. The other is not. These bipartisan bills will help prevent wildfires and meet nuclear fuel demands.

The law and economy have spoken. DOE should stop inventing ‘emergencies’ and let coal fail.

Trump and Zeldin are defying the laws of this country, the laws of physics, and the law of common sense. Their Polluters First Agenda passes the very real costs of a more extreme climate onto working families. We must protect human health and our environment—not corporate polluter profits.

How about some good news? Through bipartisan consensus, this CR contains no-brainer extensions for infrastructure funding and fee collections from chemical manufacturers. Wins that improve Americans' lives.

Renaming the Kennedy Center after a deeply unpopular president seems to have been a financial disaster. @whitehouse.senate.gov is renewing demands for the Center's financial documents, a basic expectation of trustees with fiduciary duties.

Even Trump’s own DOJ won’t go along with his vandalism lies.

From flood risk management to clean and safe drinking water programs to ecosystem restoration and more, this water package will accomplish a lot of good for our nation.

Trump screws up ANOTHER reflecting pool? More shoddy work spotted at the Kennedy Center.

EPA's air office once worked to protect human health and the environment. Then came fossil fuel crony Aaron Szabo. Szabo will be remembered by the sickness, death, and pollution he helped exacerbate.

@whitehouse.senate.gov asked a Trump nominee for evidence that vandals damaged the Reflecting Pool. We're still wondering, where is that evidence?

The Trump Administration will happily sacrifice an entire species on the altar of oil and gas interests. It’s cruel, and it’s corrupt.

This is just part of Trump’s crooked scheme.

We are living through a biodiversity crash being driven primarily by human activity: climate change, deforestation, pollution, and more. How much of what wildlife remains must be a sacrifice to the worship of fossil fuel?

While Trump hands out big bucks for his fossil fuel donors, families' energy costs climb higher. Since Trump took office, utility costs have soared 18%.

We want to pass permitting reform in the Senate. But the Administration’s clean energy obstruction must end.

President Trump’s war in Iran raised gasoline costs above $4 per gallon in every single state. We need transportation policies that help Americans, not Trump's Big Oil donors. We need affordable, reliable, and safe transportation choices.

Trump took a wrecking ball to the White House … and the law. @whitehouse.senate.gov, @robertgarcia.house.gov, and @rephuffman.bsky.social are leading 140+ Dems to challenge the Administration in court and stop his billion-dollar ballroom.

Ozone isn’t just air pollution. It’s also a major driver of climate change. @whitehouse.senate.gov and Senator Schatz introduced a bill to fund new research to tackle this potent greenhouse gas.

Trump Administration interference, closed-door decision-making, and alarming staff losses threaten the success of our nation’s nuclear safety regulator and the foundation of our nuclear industry.

It takes some messed-up math to believe expensive, polluting coal is bringing costs down.

You meant to say energy, Lee. It’s more expensive now thanks to you.

The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the math is simple. Offshore wind lowers energy costs.

Big Oil is using Trump's war to drive up prices and rake in record profits. In just the first three months of 2026, BP made $3,200,000,000. That’s over $266 million per week. $34 million per day. $402 per *second.* My Windfall Profits Bill would return those profits to you.

Trump’s EPA lies about bringing down costs for families. All they care about is paying off Trump’s fossil fuel donors. You pay the price.

Under Zeldin’s leadership, this EPA has sold out American families for Trump’s fossil fuel donors. They sell more coal, oil, and gas. You pay with your wallet and health.

Republicans drive up the costs of everything from groceries to gas to homeowners' insurance by pretending climate change isn't real. Their fossil fuel donors get even wealthier, and you foot the bill.

Trump is extracting money from families’ budgets and pumping it to his fossil fuel donors.

Things you see inside Trump’s Kennedy Center: pay-to-play corruption, shady dealings, and looters running the Center into the ground.

All our coastal areas—fresh and salty—are in dire need of more resources and protection. In improving the value of our coasts, we should take inspiration from an old adage and lift all boats.

Today's preliminary injunction makes clear what we knew all along: Trump’s ballroom vanity project cannot continue—and never should have started—without express approval from Congress. The President is a steward of the White House, not an owner.

The more this Administration rewards Trump’s fossil fuel donors, the more you’re exposed to the risks and costs of climate change. You pay for it on your utility bills, at the supermarket, on your property insurance, and on your medical bills.

Republicans drive up home insurance costs by pretending climate change isn’t real — a service to their fossil fuel funders; a huge disservice to their constituents.

Americans are getting squeezed at the gas pump as Trump’s War in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors. This week, @khanna.house.gov and I reintroduced a bill to curb this profiteering and provide relief to consumers.

This is Trump’s dirty scheme to raise your power bill.

Electric bills are up 13% nationally since Trump took office. His corrupt fossil fuel donors sell more oil, gas, and coal. You pay the bill.