U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is fighting to reduce carbon pollution and position America as a leader in the clean energy economy.

Whitehouse is an influential and outspoken champion of action on climate change. He is a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, a co-founder of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, and a member of Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. For nearly nine years, he took to the Senate floor each week the Senate was in session to call on Congress to wake up to the threat of climate change.

Whitehouse has introduced and passed a number of important energy bills in Congress and has championed legislation to put a fee on carbon pollution, establishing a market incentive to reduce emissions. He passed bipartisan clean energy bills, including the FUTURE Act, to develop technologies for removing carbon pollution from the atmosphere, and the Clean Industrial Technology Act, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector.

The Senator has championed tax incentives to grow the renewable energy sector, including the tax provisions that spurred America’s first offshore wind farm along Rhode Island’s coast.

Whitehouse also helped to pass bipartisan advanced nuclear legislation to promote research, development, and licensing for a new generation of nuclear reactors—technology that holds the promise of generating carbon-free energy while addressing the challenge of nuclear waste.

In addition to EPW, he is a member of the Budget, the Judiciary, and the Finance Committees.

A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Whitehouse served as Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney and state Attorney General before being elected to the United States Senate in 2006.