Environmental teams with ties to anti-Israel teams, the Chinese language Communist Get together (CCP) and billionaire mega-donors are pressuring Democratic congressional management to pursue an agenda of “no immunity” for the fossil gas business.
“We write to urge Democratic members of the House and Senate to proactively and affirmatively reject any proposal that would shield fossil fuel companies from the growing number of legal and legislative efforts to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis,” a letter from nearly 200 environmental teams to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., reads.
The signers embrace the Westchester Folks’s Motion Coalition (WESPAC), a fiscal sponsor of College students for Justice Palestine, a pro-Palestine group that has orchestrated dozens of anti-Israel protests for the reason that Oct. 6 terrorist assault.
Fox Information Digital beforehand reported on the monetary ties between WESPAC and liberal megadonor George Soros. WESPAC, whose funding is essentially unknown, has espoused anti-Israel rhetoric for years, together with accusing the federal government of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “collective punishment” and “war crimes,” in line with NGO Monitor.
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Greater than 100 local weather teams are calling on Democrats in Congress to offer “no immunity” to the fossil gas business. (Getty)
One other letter-signer was the Pure Assets Protection Council (NRDC), one of many nation’s largest environmentalist teams, which has been accused by Republican members of congress of getting “substantial” ties to the CCP.
NRDC’s president and CEO, Manish Bapna, is a council member of the China Council for Worldwide Cooperation on Atmosphere and Growth, a “platform for cooperation and policy development between Chinese and international researchers.”
Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. James Comer despatched a letter to the lawyer common in 2023 to analyze NRDC, saying it “acts as a mouthpiece for Chinese propaganda, signaling that it either takes direction from the CCP or that it is willing to self-censor to maintain a positive relationship with the Communist regime.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, speaks throughout a information convention on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Bob Deans, spokesman for NRDC, informed Fox Information Digital in a press release, “This letter affirms a simple principle: the polluter pays for the harm they cause. The fossil fuel industry shouldn’t be let off the hook for the damage its pollution causes; same as any other industry. Working families shouldn’t have to pay the price for that pollution, in the havoc it wreaks on our homes, pocketbooks, health and farms.”
“The NRDC is an independent, non-profit, public-interest group working to confront the climate crisis and protect the environment and public health. When developing our institutional positions—in the United States, China, and anywhere else in the world—we rely on our U.S.-based senior leadership and board of independent trustees, and no one else. We do the bidding of no government, in this country or any other.”
International-funded teams Extinction Revolt and the Heart for Local weather Integrity (CCI) joined in on the letter to Democratic management.
CCI, of their 2022 990 type, promoted the thought “that climate polluters should be held financially responsible for the climate damage they’ve deliberately caused at the center of the climate debate.”
The group, which acquired a grant of over $1 million from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Household Fund in 2018, stated that they help “congressional investigations designed to expose the oil and gas industry’s historic and ongoing climate deception.”
The Kids’s Funding Fund Basis, co-founded by European billionaire Christopher Hohn, donated $7 million to CCI from January 2018 via September 2020 in an effort “to accelerate climate action by supporting litigation that promotes climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience.”
Extinction Revolt has been liable for an extended checklist of makes an attempt to disrupt the general public lifetime of harmless bystanders, together with blocking an airstrip, blocking site visitors and interfering with the tennis U.S. Open in 2023.
One other environmental advocacy group, 350.org, is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a gaggle owned by billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg who, in October, grew to become the second-largest particular person donor to then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign.
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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is seen forward of votes on a Persevering with Decision, which might avert a authorities shutdown, in Washington, D.C. on March 14, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)
The group is funded by the Tides Basis, a gaggle that fiscally sponsors pro-Palestine teams, such because the Adalah Justice Venture, a Palestinian-led advocacy group. Fox Information Digital has beforehand reported that the Tides Basis has given hundreds of thousands to liberal organizations who’ve organized pro-Palestinian protests.
The muse financially backs a number of teams listed as signatories on the letter to Jeffries and Schumer.
“Tides is aware of the letter that was sent to Rep. Jeffries and Sen. Schumer to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis,” a Tides Basis spokesperson informed Fox Information Digital. “Our community of fiscally sponsored projects, donors, and grantees hold a wide range of perspectives, including on how to best protect and care for our planet.”
The assertion continued, “At Tides, we value and support diverse approaches to advancing equity. We work closely with our partners to ensure they adhere to the guidelines outlined in our handbook and we condemn hate speech, violence, antisemitism and Islamophobia in any form. Tides has never received money from Open Society Foundation or any other donor to fund the student protests on college campuses. We believe that every life lost to violence is a profound injustice.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the workplaces of Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries.
