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FIRST ON FOX: A nationalist security-focused nonprofit enactment has released a broad study detailing the workings of a well-funded nominally U.S.-based enactment that it says is undermining American energy, pushing left-wing greenish initiatives, and yet advancing Chinese interests.
The report, published by State Armor, outlines the wealth way of Energy Foundation China, registered arsenic a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is technically headquartered successful San Francisco but with employees mostly based successful Beijing.
"Energy Foundation China utilized to beryllium known arsenic the Energy Foundation earlier it spun disconnected astir of its U.S.-based operations successful 2019 into a abstracted enactment called the U.S. Energy Foundation," the study explains. "While inactive formally organized arsenic the Energy Foundation, since 2019, the enactment has utilized the alias ‘Energy Foundation China’ oregon ‘EF China’ to differentiate from the now-separate U.S. Energy Foundation. The radical was founded by Hal Harvey, a clime activistic and entrepreneur with heavy ties to galore left-wing organizations and to China."
State Armor recovered that EFC has "spent millions each twelvemonth to bankroll clime advocates who beforehand phasing retired fossil fuels and implementing greenish vigor alternatives similar the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the second of which was the people of a 2018 Congressional enquiry into whether it should registry arsenic a overseas cause based connected its Chinese funding."
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The nationalist flags of the United States and China flutter astatine the Fairmont Peace Hotel connected April 25, 2024 successful Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)
The Rocky Mountain Institute produced 1 of the astir salient studies utilized by galore Democrats to warrant cutting down connected state stoves and was cited by President Biden’s Department of Energy.
Earlier this year, aggregate committees joined to begin an investigation into EFC, and requested files from EFC President Zi Chou astir fiscal resources fixed to American organizations after Fox News Digital reporting connected the radical funneling millions of dollars to money clime initiatives and biology groups successful the U.S.
The study details however EFC "led a U.S. state-level legislative drive" against Bayer, the starring Western fertilizer company, that pushed for lawsuits against the institution implicit a perchance carcinogenic pesticide with the purpose of driving the institution retired of the U.S. and successful crook forcing reliance connected Chinese suppliers.
The study goes connected to outline however the enactment has "provided millions" to the International Council connected Clean Transportation (ICCT) to enactment "a cleanable vigor future" and however ICCT was an "active supporter" of clime initiatives successful the Inflation Reduction Act targeting accrued artillery electrical trucking infrastructure.
Fox News Digital reported successful 2023 that The Energy Foundation sent $480,000 to the Washington, D.C.-based International Council connected Clean Transportation, which advocates for wide EV adoption and policies decarbonizing the proscription assemblage broadly. It besides wired grants — 1 to the University of Maryland and different to the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs — worthy a full of $450,000 and earmarked for projects to signifier retired ember powerfulness reliance.
Josh Hodges, Commissioner connected the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and erstwhile National Security Advisor to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and NSC Senior Director successful the archetypal Trump Administration, told Fox News Digital that EFC is simply a "textbook illustration of the CCP’s asymmetric warfare strategy and thrust to deepen its dominance implicit American companies."
"Communist China is manipulating a expected philanthropic web to steer the U.S. distant from reliable home vigor sources and into dependence connected Chinese proviso chains," Hodges said. "Whether it's star panels, mobile phones, electrical conveyance batteries, oregon cultivation chemicals, Beijing’s fingerprints are each implicit the 'green transition' being pushed connected America."
The study quotes Chinese clime envoy Liu Zhenmin who suggested that Biden’s greenish vigor policies volition stay adjacent nether a much skeptical Trump medication and said, "even if the caller Trump medication reverses clime alteration policies, it is improbable to wholly alteration the greenish modulation actions that person already begun successful assorted parts of the U.S."
"In different words, the CCP’s penetration of the U.S.’ governmental and concern systems runs truthful heavy that CCP officials judge that not adjacent a skeptical White House could halt America’s increasing dependence upon Chinese technologies," the study states.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS)
Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers’ Research told Fox News Digital that the study "exposes a disturbing truth" that EFC is portion of a broader propulsion to undermine American vigor independency and "stifle" the Trump vigor docket to payment the CCP.
"EFC is weaponizing woke ideology to propulsion disconnected this strategy and unit American consumers to trust connected the Chinese Communist Party for vigor sources," Hild said. "Americans merit to cognize the information astir our overseas adversary’s run that is poisoning our system and reshaping our vigor future. We applaud organizations similar State Armor that are moving to exposure these grifts against consumers."
In summation to the EFC’s clime activism, the study focuses connected how, by "co-opting clime activism and dominating caller alleged greenish proviso chains, Beijing converts a home weakness into a planetary strength" portion besides detailing the ties betwixt EFC and the CCP.
For example, EFC’s CEO Zou Ji has served successful erstwhile roles astatine apical enactment positions successful China’s authoritative National Center for Climate Change Strategy wrong the National Development and Reform Commission of the State Council.
"He was truthful profoundly tied into CCP enactment that helium was included arsenic a portion of China’s delegation to the 2015 Paris Climate Talks," the study says. "Zou’s different affiliations see a presumption astatine Tsinghua University astatine a halfway wherever his colleagues see a retired elder PLA serviceman and a erstwhile lawman manager of an MSS deliberation tank."
Zou is not the lone EFC fig with ties to the CCP, the study says, pointing to EFC Board Member and Washington, D.C. based lawyer Hongjun Zhang, who serves arsenic a subordinate of China’s Council for International Cooperation connected Environment and Development and was antecedently a legislative manager for the China National People’s Congress.
Zhang, according to his instrumentality firm’s bio page, spent "many years successful the Chinese government" that included enactment astatine the "Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), and National Development and Reform Commission."
The study states that EFC’s operations successful China are overseen by the CCP’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and that the organization’s Beijing office are located successful a gathering owned by a state-owned concern corp tied to Chinese authorities media propaganda.
China's nationalist emblem flutters connected Pingtan island, the closest constituent successful China to Taiwan's main island (Adek Berry)
Rep. John Moolenar, R-Mich., who is the president of the House Select Committee connected the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, sounded the alarm implicit the report, telling Fox News Digital "This study confirms what we’ve agelong warned: the Chinese Communist Party is utilizing seemingly innocuous nonprofits to power American argumentation and undermine U.S. interests — successful this case, our vigor independence."
"Energy Foundation China operates astatine the absorption of the CCP and is exploiting our charitable strategy to propulsion policies that payment Beijing, not the American people," Moolenar continued. "The Select Committee continues to analyse however CCP-linked organizations infiltrate U.S. institutions, displacement captious proviso chains toward China, and signifier biology agendas that purpose to marque America weaker portion China gets stronger. We volition proceed to exposure these power operations and enactment with Congress and the Administration to safeguard U.S. vigor information and nationalist sovereignty."
The study besides points to examples of EFC collaborating with U.S. entities and officials including successful 2023 erstwhile it "provided support" for an lawsuit that featured California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a sojourn to China and past hosted a forum a period aboriginal for a treatment promoting "low-carbon practice betwixt the 2 nations."
Vance Wagner, the vice president for strategical partnerships astatine Energy Foundation China, pushed backmost connected the report, telling Fox News Digital that "Energy Foundation China (EFC) is an autarkic grantmaking charitable enactment that provides backing for probe and capableness gathering related to clime alteration and China."
"Climate alteration is 1 of the top threats facing our world. Our enactment is presently focused connected China fixed the standard of its vigor assemblage and its relation successful planetary emissions. Despite geopolitical tensions, meaningful engagement with China connected clime alteration and emissions reductions is successful everyone’s interests," Vance continued. "All grants we marque enactment projects related to clime alteration and China, and are successful nary mode related to influencing U.S. vigor policy. EFC does not judge backing from immoderate authorities oregon governmental party."
"Neither the Chinese authorities nor the CCP fund, direct, oregon power EFC oregon our grant-making decisions," helium added. "We are compliant with each U.S. and Chinese laws and regulations and bash not lobby oregon enactment electoral activities successful immoderate country."
The study states that betwixt 2020 and 2021, EFC gave implicit $1 cardinal to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for backing "green vigor research" and laboratory grooming expanding the ratio of China's concern sectors.
The Biden administration, according to the report, gave $60 cardinal successful grants to the Institute for Sustainable Communities, which is simply a radical "frequently successful collaboration with Energy Foundation China."
"America’s vigor information is nationalist security," Jason Isaac, CEO of American Energy Institute, told Fox News Digital.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during his associated property league with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pursuing their talks astatine the PM's office, the erstwhile Carmelite Monastery, successful Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
"The State Armor study lays bare however the Chinese Communist Party has co-opted clime activism to displacement the U.S. onto alleged ‘green’ technologies that are manufactured, mined, and controlled by China. From star panels to EV batteries and uncommon world minerals, our proviso chains are progressively entangled with a overseas adversary that uses forced labor, ignores biology safeguards, and openly aims to predominate the planetary vigor future. This isn’t progress—it’s dependence. Real vigor dominance means leveraging America’s immense home vigor resources, not outsourcing our aboriginal to Beijing."
Along with the report, State Armor has sent letters to Republican committee chairs successful Congress, including Chairmen Grassley, Lee, Moolenaar, Comer, and Guthrie, that telephone for punctual oversight connected the matter.
"Congress indispensable act," the letter, authored by Lucci, implores. "Oversight is urgently needed to exposure the afloat grade of this operation, opening with Energy Foundation China. The EFC is not a passive observer; it is an progressive subordinate successful a geopolitical contention wherever America’s vigor information and planetary enactment bent successful the balance."
Fox News Digital’s Thomas Catenacci and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report
Andrew Mark Miller is simply a newsman astatine Fox News. Find him connected Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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