{"id":303119,"date":"2024-02-19T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303119"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T10:42:42","slug":"foreign-billionaire-backed-climate-org-pressuring-broadcasters-to-censor-ads-critical-of-bidens-ev-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303119","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Billionaire-Backed Climate Org Pressuring Broadcasters To Censor Ads Critical Of Biden\u2019s EV Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A green nonprofit that is indirectly funded by a foreign billionaire is pressuring broadcasters to drop advertisements that criticize the Biden administration\u2019s massive electric vehicle (EV) agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Power wrote to numerous broadcasters this week demanding that they stop airing American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM)-funded advertisements in swing state markets that rail against President Joe Biden\u2019s plans to impose widespread EV adoption in the coming years. The charitable organization affiliated with Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss health care mogul and billionaire philanthropist, donates millions of dollars to the Fund for a Better Future, which was the fiscal sponsor for Climate Power until 2023, a spokesperson for Climate Power previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFPM launched<\/a> its seven-figure ad campaign designed to highlight and criticize the administration\u2019s EV policies on Tuesday. The ads, which describe Biden\u2019s policies as an EV mandate, are airing in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Montana and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Power\u2019s warning letter to local affiliates states that the broadcasters \u201cmust remove these ads from the air immediately\u201d because \u201cthere is no pending federal \u2018car ban,\u2019 and to claim otherwise is patently false and intentionally misleading.\u201d The letter suggests that AFPM\u2019s ads could be in violation of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules, and instructs the broadcasters to contact Climate Power \u2014 an Internal Revenue Service-recognized 501(c)4 that is spending\u00a0more than $80 million<\/a>\u00a0to tout Biden\u2019s climate policies ahead of the 2024 presidential election \u2014 to confirm that the ads are no longer running on their stations.\u00a0(RELATED: Left-Wing Billionaire\u2019s Nonprofit Is Pushing A TikTok Campaign Against American Energy)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n