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US senator warns of fossil fuel coup, economic reckoning / 66BQ363
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One of the US Senate's leading climate advocates says President Donald Trump's administration no longer governs -- it "occupies" the nation on behalf of Big Oil. In an interview, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island blames the sweeping rollback of environmental protections on a flood of unlimited, anonymous corporate political spending, and says exposing the scale of this "fraud" is key to breaking its grip. "This isn't even government any longer," the 69-year-old tells a small group of reporters. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES