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The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a new report Monday detailing how the Biden-Harris administration has given huge amounts of taxpayer cash to left-wing activist groups under the guise of \u201cenvironmental justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0highlights how the Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used hundreds of millions of dollars from the\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>\u00a0(IRA) \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s signature climate bill \u2014 to line the pockets of left-wing activist groups aligned with the administration\u2019s sprawling climate and green energy agendas. The use of taxpayer funds to support these activist groups, some of which already receive considerable financial support from large environmentalist outfits like the Environmental Defense Fund and the Energy Foundation, is arguably \u201cakin to a taxpayer-funded lobbying operation,\u201d the lawmakers argue in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe lists of organizations selected to receive funding or partner with those organizations include environmental activist organizations that work to influence public and elected officials to adopt their often-extreme views, such as completely eliminating the use of fossil fuels, which Americans recognize are an important part of an all-of-the-above energy mix,\u201d the report states. \u201cWhile some selected organizations include other types of entities such as instBYitutes of high education, many are special interest environmental nonprofit organizations. These organizations\u2019 views and missions often align with those of the administration, in effect using taxpayer dollars to promote the Biden-Harris radical energy agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new report highlights several instances of hardline groups receiving taxpayer cash in the name of \u201cenvironmental justice,\u201d such as the Climate Justice Alliance\u2019s receipt of $50 million. The Climate Justice Alliance<\/a> has called for the abolition of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and the group has also advocated for Palestinians following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll eligible applications submitted for EPA funding go through a rigorous competitive process. EPA takes program integrity very seriously and will continue delivering on the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s environmental justice goals in a robust and transparent manner,\u201d an EPA spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cEPA has multiple safeguards in place to ensure grant activities are fully compliant with grant commitments and the laws Congress has directed EPA to implement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other EPA awardees or partner organizations involved in agency \u201cenvironmental justice\u201d programs characterized as \u201calarming\u201d by the committee include WE ACT For Environmental Justice<\/a>, the Southern Environmental Law Center and the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice<\/a>, in part because each organization has participated in efforts to influence officials or policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the EPA\u2019s use of \u201cpass-through\u201d grantmakers to administer several of its key \u201cenvironmental justice\u201d programs, as well as the tight timelines that the agency has to work within to shell out much of the available funding, also heightens the risk for waste, fraud and abuse, the committee wrote in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt couldn\u2019t be more clear: The Biden-Harris administration rewards its environmental special interests at the expense of the American people. As part of its radical rush-to-green agenda, the administration gave hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to activists who also engage in political activities,\u201d Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, Morgan Griffith of Virginia and Buddy Carter of Georgia said in a joint statement. \u201cIt was empowered to do so by congressional Democrats who jammed through legislation that was designed to rush money out the door as quickly as possible with no guards against waste, fraud, and abuse. Equally as alarming is how these policies benefit the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 the world\u2019s worst polluter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in The Daily Caller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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