Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said Wednesday she is introducing legislation requiring the federal government to track and make public the carbon emissions produced by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and executive branch departments and agencies. “What I’ve done is put forward some new legislation which tracks the carbon emissions of White House and executive branch officials,” Ernst told reporters during a digital news conference to mark Sunshine Week. Sunshine Week celebrates important transparency-in-government laws like the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the March 15 birthday of former President James Madison, one of the main authors of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, who famously said “sunshine is the best disinfectant.” Ernst said her proposal “really does expose the hypocrisy that we have seen with these government officials who are going after bio-fuels and fossil fuels while they themselves are using fossil-fueled transportation means. Just blatant hypocrisy, …