{"id":131270,"date":"2022-09-28T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=131270"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:42:02","slug":"heavy-us-govt-influencers-anti-fossil-fuel-group-in-chinese-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131270","title":{"rendered":"Heavy US Gov’t influencers anti-fossil fuel group in Chinese pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News reports that a major influencer of US energy policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, is an anti-fossil fuel group with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. They sued the Trump administration multiple times, excoriate fossil-fuel use, the Keystone XL pipeline – basically if it is fossil related, they’re agin’ it. Unless, of course, China’s energy policies are in question.<\/p>\n

The NRDC, a non-profit organization based in New York City with total assets exceeding $450 million, has worked on climate issues extensively in China since the mid-1990s and several of its top officials have worked for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or government-sponsored institutions.<\/p>\n

The organization, which was founded in the 1970s as “America’s first litigation-focused nonprofit dedicated to making dirty industries clean up their pollution” has filed dozens of legal challenges pushing far-left green measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through its legal efforts, the NRDC has opposed domestic oil and gas drilling programs, coal plants, the Keystone XL pipeline and critical mineral mining projects.<\/p>\n

The group bragged in December 2019 after it had filed its 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think I see a pattern. The US gets condemned quite regularly. The current administration, however, is apparently working with them.<\/p>\n

The NRDC also maintains a close working relationship<\/a> with President Biden’s administration. The NRDC’s former president, Gina McCarthy, served as Biden’s climate czar up from January 2021 until earlier this month. Current president, Manish Bapna, has attended at least two White House meetings, visitor logs reviewed by Fox News Digital show.<\/p>\n

The NRDC regularly communicates with Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s office on policy issues, according to internal State Department emails obtained by the watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust and shared with Fox News Digital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China, however, comes in for a lot of lovin’ as they garner praise for all the steps they have taken: despite being the single largest emitter on the planet, with a whopping 27% of global emissions.<\/p>\n

It is unclear whether the NRDC accepts direct or indirect funding from individuals or organizations affiliated with the Chinese government. The Internal Revenue Service generally does not require nonprofit organizations to publicly disclose donor information.<\/p>\n

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<\/picture>In addition, numerous key members of its Beijing office have previously worked for China’s communist government<\/a> or left the group for a government position.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The NRDC also regularly has published blog posts commending China for its climate actions.<\/p>\n

“China\u2019s leaders are sending a clear signal that China\u2019s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is accelerating and that ‘new energy’ should be the basis for China\u2019s future energy system, rather than fossil fuels,” NRDC senior adviser Alvin Lin wrote in 2021.<\/p>\n

Another 2021 blog post, from other NRDC experts, claimed China’s agreement to a United Nations treaty was “a major global climate win that should also lend a boost of confidence to broader climate talks heating up this year.”<\/p>\n

Andrew Wetzler, NRDC’s chief program officer, wrote in 2018 that the “most exciting work in conservation” was taking place in China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They have drawn unfavorable attention from legislators, too:<\/p>\n

“The ties environmental groups, like NRDC, have to China is something we are continuing to keep close tabs on,” a spokesperson for House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We\u2019ve done a lot of oversight this Congress and it will continue to be a top priority for Ranking Member Westerman if we take back the House.”<\/p>\n

In 2018, Westerman and former Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, who was the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee at the time, wrote to NRDC leadership, requesting more information on its ties to China. The pair suggested the group’s apparent affiliation with China could require it to register as a foreign agent.<\/p>\n

“The NRDC\u2019s relationship with China has many of the criteria identified by U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement as putting an entity at risk of being influenced or coerced by foreign interests,” Bishop and Westerman wrote in the June 5, 2018, letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News, all quotes<\/a><\/p>\n

It is worth noting where their main staffing is: their Chinese office has three times the personnel as the office that seves the US and Europe.<\/p>\n

Nice to know that while Kerry and the folks are flying gas-guzzler limos on jumbo jets around the world so they can tell us we should reduce our carbon footprint, who is driving their bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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