'congress Must Act': Nonprofit Study Exposes Green Energy Org's Ties To Ccp Interests While Undermining Us

FIRST ON FOX: A nationalist security-focused nonprofit statement has released a broad study detailing nan workings of a well-funded nominally U.S.-based statement that it says is undermining American energy, pushing left-wing greenish initiatives, and yet advancing Chinese interests. 

The report, published by State Armor, outlines nan money way of Energy Foundation China, registered arsenic a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is technically headquartered successful San Francisco but pinch labor mostly based successful Beijing.

"Energy Foundation China utilized to beryllium known arsenic nan Energy Foundation earlier it spun disconnected astir of its U.S.-based operations successful 2019 into a abstracted statement called nan U.S. Energy Foundation," nan study explains. "While still formally organized arsenic nan Energy Foundation, since 2019, nan statement has utilized nan othername ‘Energy Foundation China’ aliases ‘EF China’ to differentiate from nan now-separate U.S. Energy Foundation. The group was founded by Hal Harvey, a ambiance activistic and entrepreneur pinch heavy ties to galore left-wing organizations and to China."

State Armor recovered that EFC has "spent millions each twelvemonth to bankroll ambiance advocates who beforehand phasing retired fossil fuels and implementing greenish power alternatives for illustration nan Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), nan second of which was nan target of a 2018 Congressional enquiry into whether it should registry arsenic a overseas supplier based connected its Chinese funding."

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The nationalist flags of nan United States and China flutter astatine nan 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 nan 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 financial resources fixed to American organizations after Fox News Digital reporting connected nan group funneling millions of dollars to money ambiance initiatives and biology groups successful nan U.S.

The study specifications really EFC "led a U.S. state-level legislative drive" against Bayer, nan starring Western fertilizer company, that pushed for lawsuits against nan institution complete a perchance carcinogenic pesticide pinch nan purpose of driving nan institution retired of nan U.S. and successful move forcing reliance connected Chinese suppliers. 

The study goes connected to outline really nan statement has "provided millions" to nan International Council connected Clean Transportation (ICCT) to support "a cleanable power future" and really ICCT was an "active supporter" of ambiance initiatives successful nan Inflation Reduction Act targeting accrued artillery electrical trucking infrastructure. 

Fox News Digital reported successful 2023 that The Energy Foundation sent $480,000 to nan Washington, D.C.-based International Council connected Clean Transportation, which advocates for wide EV take and policies decarbonizing nan proscription assemblage broadly. It besides wired grants — 1 to nan University of Maryland and different to nan Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs — worthy a full of $450,000 and earmarked for projects to shape retired ember powerfulness reliance.

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Josh Hodges, Commissioner connected nan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and erstwhile National Security Advisor to Speaker of nan House Mike Johnson and NSC Senior Director successful nan first Trump Administration, told Fox News Digital that EFC is simply a "textbook illustration of nan CCP’s asymmetric warfare strategy and thrust to deepen its power complete American companies."

"Communist China is manipulating a expected philanthropic web to steer nan U.S. distant from reliable home power sources and into dependence connected Chinese proviso chains," Hodges said. "Whether it's star panels, mobile phones, electrical conveyance batteries, aliases cultivation chemicals, Beijing’s fingerprints are each complete nan 'green transition' being pushed connected America."

The study quotes Chinese ambiance envoy Liu Zhenmin who suggested that Biden’s greenish power policies will stay moreover nether a much skeptical Trump management and said, "even if nan caller Trump management reverses ambiance alteration policies, it is improbable to wholly alteration nan greenish modulation actions that person already begun successful various parts of nan U.S."

"In different words, nan CCP’s penetration of nan U.S.’ governmental and business systems runs truthful heavy that CCP officials judge that not moreover a skeptical White House could halt America’s increasing dependence upon Chinese technologies," nan study states. 

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS)

Will Hild, Executive Director of Consumers’ Research told Fox News Digital that nan study "exposes a disturbing truth" that EFC is portion of a broader push to undermine American power independency and "stifle" nan Trump power schedule to use nan CCP. 

"EFC is weaponizing woke ideology to propulsion disconnected this strategy and unit American consumers to trust connected nan Chinese Communist Party for power sources," Hild said. "Americans merit to cognize nan truth astir our overseas adversary’s run that is poisoning our system and reshaping our power future. We applaud organizations for illustration State Armor that are moving to expose these grifts against consumers."

In summation to nan EFC’s ambiance activism, nan study focuses connected how, by "co-opting ambiance activism and dominating caller alleged greenish proviso chains, Beijing converts a home weakness into a world strength" while besides detailing nan ties betwixt EFC and nan CCP. 

For example, EFC’s CEO Zou Ji has served successful erstwhile roles astatine apical activity positions successful China’s charismatic National Center for Climate Change Strategy wrong nan National Development and Reform Commission of nan State Council. 

"He was truthful profoundly tied into CCP activity that he was included arsenic a portion of China’s delegation to nan 2015 Paris Climate Talks," nan study says. "Zou’s different affiliations see a position astatine Tsinghua University astatine a halfway wherever his colleagues see a retired elder PLA serviceman and a erstwhile lawman head of an MSS deliberation tank."

Zou is not nan only EFC fig pinch ties to nan CCP, nan study says, pointing to EFC Board Member and Washington, D.C. based lawyer Hongjun Zhang, who serves arsenic a personnel of China’s Council for International Cooperation connected Environment and Development and was antecedently a legislative head for nan China National People’s Congress. 

Zhang, according to his rule firm’s bio page, spent "many years successful nan Chinese government" that included activity astatine nan "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 nan CCP’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and that nan organization’s Beijing office are located successful a building owned by a state-owned finance corp tied to Chinese authorities media propaganda. 

China's nationalist emblem flutters connected Pingtan island, nan closest constituent successful China to Taiwan's main island (Adek Berry)

Rep. John Moolenar, R-Mich., who is nan president of nan House Select Committee connected nan Strategic Competition Between nan United States and nan Chinese Communist Party, sounded nan siren complete nan report, telling Fox News Digital "This study confirms what we’ve agelong warned: nan Chinese Communist Party is utilizing seemingly innocuous nonprofits to power American argumentation and undermine U.S. interests — successful this case, our power independence."

"Energy Foundation China operates astatine nan guidance of nan CCP and is exploiting our charitable strategy to push policies that use Beijing, not nan American people," Moolenar continued. "The Select Committee continues to analyse really CCP-linked organizations infiltrate U.S. institutions, displacement captious proviso chains toward China, and style biology agendas that purpose to make America weaker while China gets stronger. We will proceed to expose these power operations and activity pinch Congress and nan Administration to safeguard U.S. power information and nationalist sovereignty."

The study besides points to examples of EFC collaborating pinch U.S. entities and officials including successful 2023 erstwhile it "provided support" for an arena that featured California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a sojourn to China and past hosted a forum a period later for a chat promoting "low-carbon practice betwixt nan 2 nations."

Vance Wagner, nan vice president for strategical partnerships astatine Energy Foundation China, pushed backmost connected nan report, telling Fox News Digital that "Energy Foundation China (EFC) is an independent grantmaking charitable statement that provides backing for investigation and capacity building related to ambiance alteration and China."

"Climate alteration is 1 of nan top threats facing our world. Our activity is presently focused connected China fixed nan standard of its power assemblage and its domiciled successful world emissions. Despite geopolitical tensions, meaningful engagement pinch China connected ambiance alteration and emissions reductions is successful everyone’s interests," Vance continued. "All grants we make support projects related to ambiance alteration and China, and are successful nary measurement related to influencing U.S. power policy. EFC does not judge backing from immoderate authorities aliases governmental party."

"Neither nan Chinese authorities nor nan CCP fund, direct, aliases power EFC aliases our grant-making decisions," he added. "We are compliant pinch each U.S. and Chinese laws and regulations and do not lobby aliases support electoral activities successful immoderate country."

The study states that betwixt 2020 and 2021, EFC gave complete $1 cardinal to nan Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for backing "green power research" and laboratory training expanding nan ratio of China's business sectors. 

The Biden administration, according to nan report, gave $60 cardinal successful grants to nan Institute for Sustainable Communities, which is simply a group "frequently successful collaboration pinch Energy Foundation China."

"America’s power 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 convention pinch Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pursuing their talks astatine nan PM's office, nan erstwhile Carmelite Monastery, successful Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

"The State Armor study lays bare really nan Chinese Communist Party has co-opted ambiance activism to displacement nan 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 pinch a overseas adversary that uses forced labor, ignores biology safeguards, and openly intends to predominate nan world power future. This isn’t progress—it’s dependence. Real power power intends leveraging America’s immense home power resources, not outsourcing our early to Beijing."

Along pinch nan 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 nan matter. 

"Congress must act," nan letter, authored by Lucci, implores. "Oversight is urgently needed to expose nan afloat grade of this operation, opening pinch Energy Foundation China. The EFC is not a passive observer; it is an progressive subordinate successful a geopolitical title wherever America’s power information and world activity bent successful nan balance."

Fox News Digital’s Thomas Catenacci and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report