With the French foreign minister warning that the earth is 500 days away from “climate chaos,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said “2015 would be a very good year” for Congress to take up climate legislation.

“I think before there can be a legislative push there has to be a public push and that’s what we’re working on now,” Whitehouse told the Washington Examiner before explaining the three things that have to happen to get a vote on climate legislation.