Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected senior executives of Green organizations that receive billions of dollars in public funding, making hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal political donations to Democratic candidates and organizations in recent years, data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC). [emphasis, links added]
Biden EPA selected a taxpayer funding reward of $5 billion in taxpayer funds through the government’s massive greenhouse gas reduction reduction fund (GGRF) program in April 2024.
Reed Hundt, former CGC CEO and chairman, personally donated nearly $60,000 to Democratic candidates and ally the political group until 2013, while Richard Kauffman (which replaced Hundt in January) has personally donated $600,000 since 2020 to help Democrats.
FEC Records shows that Hundt donated $10,000 to the Harris Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2024, and he also signed a $10,000 check to the Maryland Central Committee for Democratic Nations in 2016.
Government records show Kauffman donated $150,000 to the DNC in 2020 and then offered another $20,900 to the DNC in 2024, and the same year he donated $50,000 to the Harris Victory Fund.
FEC Records shows Kaufman also donates to numerous state-level Democratic organizations and promotes Democratic Senate candidates in the 2024 game, such as former Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey.
It is worth noting that CGC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning it may not engage in politics directly or indirectly, at least for the IRS for the time being.
In 2024, the EPA awarded the Green Capital Alliance $5 billion grant to create a “green bank” of a non-governmental organization outside of Congress' control.
Reed Hundt, the group CEO, has provided some *funny* tweets for people from a “non-partisan” group with $5 billion in taxpayer funds…🧵 pic.twitter.com/tb1uxqvm8q
— Parker Thayer (@parkerthayer) December 31, 2024
“Between 2009 and 2023, the CGC and its network mobilized more than $25 billion in public and private capital to provide more affordable electricity, clean air and water, and powers that help ensure leadership in US AI,” a CGC spokesperson said in a statement to the DCNF.
A CGC spokesperson declined to address specific questions about how it made political expenditures of Hundt and Kauffman and the political connections of other board members, the organization's formal status as 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Hundt previously served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the Clinton administration and was an ally of Vice President Al Gore, while Kauffman was a senior adviser to former energy secretary Steven Chu during the Obama administration.
It is worth noting that Hundt’s personal account on X has a number of anti-Trump posts (including endorsing efforts to remove Trump in the vote) before it was removed. Hundt did not respond to a request for comment.
In the past, CGC has received funding from centers and environmentalist nonprofits, including the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, the Climate Work Foundation, and the William and Flora Hughwelt Foundation.
DCNF reported in 2023 that other Democratic insiders in the CGC were all in their ranks, when rumors were rumored that the group was shortlisted for major EPA paydays.
For example, its board includes David Hayes, who served as climate adviser to former President Joe Biden; Cecilia Martinez is a former official of Biden’s White House Environmental Quality Council; Julie Greene Collier, chief of staff of the American industrial organization Federation of Labor Conferences (AFL-CIO), a major organized labor union that recognized Biden in the 2024 presidential campaign and then former Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to FEC records, unions donated cash to help Democrats in the 2024 cycle.
“The Green Capital Alliance, like many organizations funded by the Biden administration, does not receive a dollar from the federal government, less billions of dollars,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Center for Capital Research, told DCNF.
“It’s clear that the group aims to be a mud fund to help green energy investments that have stranded by Democratic biggest donors.”
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