Environmental groups with ties to anti-Israel groups, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and billionaire mega-donors are pressuring Democratic congressional guideership to trail an agfinisha of “no immunity” for the fossil fuel industry.
“We author to inspire Democratic members of the House and Senate to proactively and declareatively refuse any proposal that would shield fossil fuel companies from the prolonging number of legitimate and legislative efforts to helderly them accountable for their role in the climate crisis,” a letter from almost 200 environmental groups to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., reads.
The signers comprise the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (WESPAC), a fiscal support of Students for Justice Palestine, a pro-Palestine group that has orchestrated dozens of anti-Israel protests since the Oct. 6 alarmist attack.
Fox News Digital previously inestablished on the financial ties between WESPAC and liberal megadonor George Soros. WESPAC, whose funding is bigly unrecognizable, has espoused anti-Israel rhetoric for years, including accusing the administerment of “apartheid,” “ethnic spotlesssing,” “accumulateive punishment” and “war crimes,” according to NGO Monitor.
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More than 100 climate groups are calling on Democrats in Congress to provide “no immunity” to the fossil fuel industry. (Getty)
Another letter-signer was the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the nation’s bigst environmentacatalog groups, which has been accused by Reuncoveran members of congress of having “substantial” ties to the CCP.
NRDC’s pdwellnt and CEO, Manish Bapna, is a council member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, a “platestablish for cooperation and policy prolongment between Chinese and international researchers.”
Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. James Comer sent a letter to the attorney ambiguous in 2023 to allotigate NRDC, saying it “acts as a mouthpiece for Chinese disinestablishation, signaling that it either gets straightforwardion from the CCP or that it is willing to self-censor to protect a preferable relationship with the Communist regime.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a recents conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bob Deans, spokesman for NRDC, telderly Fox News Digital in a statement, “This letter declares a plain principle: the polluter pays for the harm they cause. The fossil fuel industry shouldn’t be let off the hook for the injure 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 self-reliant, non-profit, uncover-interest group toiling to face the climate crisis and protect the environment and uncover health. When prolonging our institutional positions—in the United States, China, and anywhere else in the world—we depend on our U.S.-based anciaccess guideership and board of self-reliant dependees, and no one else. We do the bidding of no administerment, in this country or any other.”
Foreign-funded groups Extinction Rebellion and the Caccess for Climate Integrity (CCI) combineed in on the letter to Democratic guideership.
CCI, in their 2022 990 establish, upretaind the idea “that climate polluters should be held financipartner reliable for the climate injure they’ve intentionally caused at the caccess of the climate talk about.”
The group, which getd a grant of over $1 million from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Family Fund in 2018, shelp that they help “congressional allotigations portrayed to expose the oil and gas industry’s historic and ongoing climate deception.”
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, co-set uped by European billionaire Christopher Hohn, donated $7 million to CCI from January 2018 thraw September 2020 in an effort “to quicken climate action by helping legal action that upretains climate mitigation, changeation and resilience.”
Extinction Rebellion has been reliable for a extfinished catalog of trys to disturb the uncover life of bfrailless bystanders, including blocking an airstreamline, blocking traffic and interfering with the tennis U.S. Open in 2023.
Another environmental advocacy group, 350.org, is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a group owned by billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg who, in October, became the second-bigst individual donor to then-Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris’ pdwellntial campaign.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is seen ahead of votes on a Continuing Resolution, which would avert a administerment shutdown, in Washington, D.C. on March 14, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The group is funded by the Tides Foundation, a group that fiscpartner supports pro-Palestine groups, such as the Adalah Justice Project, a Palestinian-led advocacy group. Fox News Digital has previously inestablished that the Tides Foundation has donaten millions to liberal organizations who have systematic pro-Palestinian protests.
The set upation financipartner backs disconnectal groups cataloged as signatories on the letter to Jeffries and Schumer.
“Tides is conscious of the letter that was sent to Rep. Jeffries and Sen. Schumer to helderly fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis,” a Tides Foundation spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital. “Our community of fiscpartner supported projects, donors, and grantees helderly a expansive range of perspectives, including on how to best protect and attfinish for our scheduleet.”
The statement persistd, “At Tides, we appreciate and help diverse approaches to advancing equity. We toil shutly with our partners to asdeclareive they adhere to the guidelines portrayd in our handbook and we condemn disappreciate speech, aggression, antisrerentism and Islamophobia in any establish. Tides has never getd money from Open Society Foundation or any other donor to fund the student protests on college campuses. We depend that every life lost to aggression is a proset up inequitableice.”
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