Senator Raises Climate Warning Amid Texas Floods, Trump Tax Bill (2)

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is expected to implore his colleagues this evening — for the 300th time — “to wake up” and start addressing climate change.

The Rhode Island Democrat in April 2012 began one of the longest-running regular speaking spots in the legislature’s history. The biggest change since he began making climate floor speeches, he said Tuesday in his Senate office, came after he realized he needed to dwell less on the facts of climate science and more on “calling out the fossil fuels [industry’s] massive climate denial operation.”

In a wide-ranging interview about lawmaking, politics, industry and science, Whitehouse expressed mild ...