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| Biden-Harris paying billions to 'radical left' climate change groups and Chinese communist party: report | |
| 2024-11-07 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Biden-Harris Administration
A new report blasted the White House for subsidizing a shift to green energy tech 'which relies upon supply chains dominated by the Chinese Communist Party,' although financial analysts who cover the US energy sector dispute those claims. The Delaware Valley Citizens Council for Clean Air received funding to phase out fracking and 'make biking, walking, transit, and electric vehicles the primary' sources of transportation — a plan that stresses the need for green energy. Another $10 million grant was given to West Harlem Environmental Action, Incorporated (WE ACT), which called for the halt on new natural gas operations to continue 'fighting false solution infrastructure.' 'Simply put, the EPA is awarding taxpayer dollars to special interest groups committed to a radical energy agenda to "educate" others,' House Republicans said. While the US currently produces one third of its solar panels domestically, it faces fierce competition from China — which produces roughly 98 percent of the world's solar wafers, lowering prices of the tech globally. Today under Biden, the US imposes a 39 percent tariff on all such solar components imported from China. But the US energy sector nevertheless does import solar cells, wafers and polysilicon from the Asian nation, totaling a record $12 billion in 2023 from China and its major export hubs in Malaysia, Vietnan, Thailand and Cambodia, according to Reuters. Republicans overseeing the House Energy and Commerce Committee, however, zeroed-in on what they called a lack of oversight within the EPA to ensure that $41.5 billion in nonprofit grants funded by Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) were properly used. In a public statement, Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said, 'It couldn't be more clear: The Biden-Harris administration rewards its environmental special interests at the expense of the American people.' 'Equally as alarming,' Representative Rodgers noted in the joint-statement, 'is how these policies benefit the Chinese Communist Party — the world's worst polluter.' Approximately $2.8 billion managed by the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) was one specific spending concern in the report. Another was $50 million given to the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) that focuses on the 'social, racial, economic and environmental justice issues of climate change,' according to its website. CJA's work under the EPA grant system would include MEER, a project to reduce climate change with land-based mirrors to reflect light directly back into space, and Rust Belt Harvest, 'harvests and distributes surplus urban fruit and vegetables in Buffalo, NY.' 'The influx of new funding and explosion of new programming discussed above will tax the EPA's oversight and financial awards monitoring capabilities,' the committee's report argued. And yet, as of August 2024, a total of $89 billion from the IRA — more than twice the $41 billion proposed for EPA grants to 'progressive' nonprofits — has already been spent on US manufacturing investment, according to MIT and the Rhodium Group. Alongside the EPA grants, over $200 billion has been earmarked for investment in domestic US green tech factories and manufacturing — nearly 500 percent more than the money dedicated to these nonprofits — as part of the Biden's 2022 IRA. One brand new $1.9 billion electric vehicle battery plant, announced for Marshall County, Mississippi this past January, was praised as 'truly life changing to constituents' by Republican state senator Neil Whaley. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 The continuing resolution streak will be ending soon. Johnson is our mall cop until January to prevent lame duck shenanigans. I’m sure he’s up to the job. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-11-07 12:21 |