Environmental groups with links with anti-Israeli groups, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) and billionaire mega-donters are pressure on the democratic leadership of the congress to continue a program of “immunity” for the fossil fuel industry.
“We write to urge democratic members of the Chamber and the Senate to proactively and affirmatively reject any proposal that would protect fossil fuel companies from the growing number of legal and legislative efforts to keep them responsible for their role in the climate crisis”, a letter of nearly 200 environmental groups to Senator Chuck Scummer, DN.Y., and REP. Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y.,.
The signatories include the Westchester People’s Action Coalition (Wespac), a tax sponsor of students for Judge Palestine, a pro-Palestine group which has orchestrated dozens of anti-Israeli demonstrations since the terrorist attack on October 6.
Fox News Digital previously reported the financial links between Wespac and the Liberal megadonor George Soros. Wespac, whose funding is largely unknown, has married anti-Israeli rhetoric for years, including the accusation of the government of “apartheid”, “ethnic cleaning”, “collective punishment” and “war crimes”, according to the NGO Monitor.
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More than 100 climatic groups call for Democrats to Congress to provide “no immunity” to the fossil fuel industry. (Getty)
Another signatory was the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the largest environmental groups in the country, which was accused by the Republican members of the Congress of having “substantial” links with the PCC.
The president and chief executive officer of the NRDC, Manish Bapna, is a member of the Chinese Council for International Environment and Development Cooperation, a “platform for cooperation and political development between Chinese and international researchers”.
Senator Ted Cruz and representative James Comer sent a letter to the Attorney General in 2023 to investigate the NRDC, saying that he “acts as a mouthpiece for Chinese propaganda, reporting that he is taking the direction of the CCP or that he is willing to take advantage of a positive relationship with the communist regime.”
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat in New York, speaks at a press conference at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, Thursday, February 6, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bob Deans, spokesperson for the NRDC, told Fox News Digital in a press release: “This letter affirms a simple principle: the polluter pays the damage they cause. The fossil fuels industry should not be unleashed for the damage caused by its pollution; just like any other industry.
“The NRDC is an independent non -profit and public interest group that works to face the climate crisis and to protect the environment and public health. When we develop our institutional posts – in the United States, in China and everywhere in the world – we do not rely on our high level based in the United States and the board of directors of independent fiduciaries, and none.
Rebellion of extinction of groups financed abroad and Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) joined the letter to democratic management.
CCI, in its form 2022 990, promoted the idea “that climatic polluters should be held financially responsible for climate damage that they have deliberately caused at the center of the climate debate”.
The group, which has received a subsidy of more than a million dollars from the Rockefeller Family Fund, fueled by the billionaire in 2018, said that they support “Congress surveys designed to exhibit historical and current climate and current climate deception.
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, co -founded by European billionaire Christopher Hohn, donated $ 7 million to CCI from January 2018 to September 2020 in an effort “to accelerate climate action by supporting disputes that promote climate attenuation, adaptation and resilience”.
The extinction rebellion was responsible for a long list of attempts to disrupt public life of innocent passers -by, in particular by blocking an landing track, blocking traffic and interfering with US Open tennis in 2023.
Another environmental defense group, 350.org, is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a group belonging to the billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg who, in October, became the second largest individual donor in the presidential campaign of the president of the time, Kamala Harris.
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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), is seen before the votes on a continuous resolution, which would avoid a government closure in Washington, DC on March 14, 2025. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu via Getty Images)
The group is funded by the Tides Foundation, a group that sponsors a tax group, such as The Adalah Justice Project, a defense group for Palestinians. Fox News Digital previously reported that TIDES Foundation had given millions to liberal organizations that organized pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The Foundation financially supports several groups listed as signatories on the letter to Jeffries and Schumer.
“TIDES is aware of the letter which was sent to the representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer to hold the fossil fuel companies responsible for their role in the climate crisis,” a spokesperson for the TIDES foundation in Fox News Digital. “Our community of projects, donors and beneficiaries sponsored by the fiscalment has a wide range of perspectives, including the best way to protect and take care of our planet.”
The declaration continued: “In Tides, we appreciate and support various approaches to advance equity. We work in close collaboration with our partners to ensure that they adhere to the guidelines described in our manual and we condemn the speech of hatred, violence, anti -Semitism and Islamophobia in any form whatsoever. The tides have never received money from the open foundation or any other donor to finance student protests on university campuses. injustice. “”
Fox News Digital contacted the offices of Senator Schumer and the representative Jeffries.
