The post found that the Biden administration remitted at least $20 billion to environmental groups, most of which were not established until recently. [emphasis, links added]
In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed a check of nearly $7 billion to the Maryland-based Bethesda Group Climate Joint Fund, which did not appear in the IRS's charity database and had no federal documents.
According to public records, the nonprofit fund was only established in Delaware on November 30, 2023, five months before Harris handed over cash in April 2024.
The Joint Climate Fund then announced a “historic investment” in a press release, noting that the organization’s work “provides benefits such as clean air and improves energy security.”
But, because the company is so new, There is no public accounting on how it plans to spend $7 billion.
Project has been announced $10.8 million “pre-development loan” solar project on tribal land in eastern Oregon and Idaho and University of Arkansas’ $32 million solar projectbut they represent only one drop in the amount of grants.
“It’s morally worrying,” said Laurie Styron, CEO of Charity Watch, an independent charity watchdog.
“When there are so many mature groups in the climate space with a good track record, what is the purpose of creating a middleman entity? What is value-added [by] Doing so, especially with a lot of taxpayer funds? ”
The charity’s cash comes from John Podesta’s $370 billion climate mud fund that oversees taxpayer currencyHillary Clinton's failed political adviser in 2016, bid for President Bill Clinton and White House Chief of Staff.
In 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Podesta to take charge of the climate fund, which was caused by the Inflation Act, a 2022 law designed to combat climate change and create clean energy.
Last year, EPA adviser Brent Efron was arrested in a video describing how the institution hastily packaged a related $20 billion climate fund, which was held by Citibank before the end of the Biden administration.
rupture: @epa Advisors acknowledge that “insurance policy” against Trump is gathering billions of dollars to climate groups, “we are throwing gold bars out of the Titanic”
“This is an insurance policy for Trump’s victory.”
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“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] Come in…just like we were on the Titanic, we threw the bars off the edge.” He said in a video posted online by the radical group Project Veritas.
Efron “acts in his personal capacity” when commenting [his] Personal opinion,” Mark S. Zaid, the attorney representing him, told the Post. He also claimed that the comments were “not related to the funds managed.”
Now, new EPA chief Lee Zeldin said he wants to back off the Climate Foundation’s cash. On Monday, he called on the agency's inspector general to investigate.
“The Biden EPA's Gold Bar Program aims to limit government oversight while investing funds into organizations that promote DEI and environmental justice,” Zeldin told the Post in a statement.
“Of the eight passing entities that received funds from $20 billion in taxes, various recipients were barely qualified to process a dollar, let alone billions of dollars. I have zero tolerance for EPA waste and abuse.”
A spokeswoman for the United Climate Fund told The Post that the Biden-controlled EPA “encourages groups to work with the coalition” to get cash.
She said the EPA cash sent to the United Climate Foundation was parked at the related nonprofit Calvert Impact.
The post found three entities called Calvert Impact, all based on Bethesda, which makes tracking the money process even more difficult.
In another example, the similarly named Judicial Climate Fund is a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2023, has not filed a tax application with the IRS and has no information on its principal on its website.
The group received $940 million from the EPA. It lists the goals of working with “community partners” to “drive transformative investment and focus on reducing pollution”.
According to public documents, another third group – Big Forward Community Company – was registered in 2023, with tax revenues of only $100 for that year.
But Maryland-based Columbia-based nonprofits somehow received $2 billion from the EPA fund.
The group said it is part of a coalition of five other charities, including United Way Way and Rewiring the U.S., a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that announced former Democratic Representative Stacey Abrams will serve as a corporate consultant in 2023.
However, Rewiring the United States only one year later registered as a corporate entity in Delaware in December 2024according to public records.
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