Heritage Foundation scholar Diana Furchtgott-Roth called out Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., for his membership at a reported all-White beach club and his family fortune's ties to the fossil fuel industry, in response to the senator's attacks.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center For Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, also noted that Whitehouse's personal wealth has ties toafter Whitehouse attacked her employer for taking money from oil and gas companies. "And The Heritage Foundation is a club that anyone can join, not just White people," she added."During 2021, it had hundreds of thousands of individual, foundation and corporate supporters representing every state in the United States.