First on the fox:: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr.i., He is accused of violating ethical rules after supporting the laws that have been financially benefited from his wife’s environmental organization.
Democratic senator and climate hawk voted for key laws that provided funds for grants Environmental non -profit group He does this with his wife Sandra Whitehouse and pays it through a consulting company.
Ethical Guardian, Liability and Civil Trust Foundation (Fact), is looking for a Committee for Selecting Senate for Ethics Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla.and Vice-President Chris Coons, D-Del., Investigate Whitehouse “to determine if he violated the rules on the ethics of the Senate of Conflict of Interest.” The group acts primarily to draw attention to the potential violations of the ethics of a democratic legislator.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been charged with a potential conflict of interest by the ethical guardian. (Getty Images)
The Whitehouse’s wife, Sandra, is employed as the president of the consulting company Ocean Wonks LLC, and she has been on her LinkedIn page since 2017. Previously, she was a direct employee of Ocean Conservance, she served as a senior policy advisor starting in 2008.
Ocean Conservany has received more than $ 14.2 million of federal grandfathers since 2008, according to Usseding.gov. During 2024 alone, they received two major supports, one for $ 5.2 million from the National Ocean and atmosphere Directorate (Noa) for the clearing of marine debris in September and the other for $ 1.7 million from the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA), to help the marina cleaning the debris.
The first was funded by the double -sided law on infrastructure (Bil), which advocated the Administration of Biden, and for which Senator Whitehouse voted. The latter is funded through EPA’s annual Authority on Approved Funds, for which Whitehouse also voted.
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“Although only these two supports are a conflict of interest, it is even more terrible in the context of the long history of Senator Whitehouse in the work of legislation lobbied by organizations related to his wife,” wrote the executive director of Kundra Arnold.
“Overall, Ocean Conservany has spent millions over the years on lobbying costs on the issues related to oceans, climate change and environmental cleansing – editions directly advocated by Senator Whitehouse, longtime member (and current member of the End of the Environment) Senate Working Committee and co -founder of the so -called ‘ocean for the ocean’ Senate.
Since 2010, Ocean Conservany has paid Whitehouse a total of $ 2,686,800 directly or through his company, according to tax documents.
Whitehouse did not comment. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Dr. Sandra Whitehouse, a respected marine ecologist and Ocean policy advisor, did not receive compensation from these federal supports assigned to the Ocean Conservancey,” Fox News Contriarchwor told Fox News Digital.
“For 40 years, Ocean Conservany has been a global leader in the cleansing of marine debris through our signature initiative, international coastal cleansing. The sea cleansing of debris assigns to the preservation of the ocean received from Noah from the laws passed with a wide two -party support that then went through a competitor, Independent Selection Procedure that has determined oceanic protection of hundreds of non -governmental Organization to receive ocean protection.
One of the grants was funded through a two -party law on infrastructure. (Photographer: Daniel Lozada/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“With the support of these two -sided federal funds, Ocean Conservancy plans to remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of garbage from the beaches and water routes around the US, which will not only protect these places for generations of Americans to enjoy, but to improve the health of our fishing and the tourist industry,” he said, “he said is.
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Watters further pointed to the notable Republican support and the Bill and the Proposal of the EPA -EPA -received Law received in Senate.
Whitehouse, Lankford and Coons did not comment on Fox News Digital on time to post.
