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The retirement savings of millions of federal workers are being weaponized to push climate change and DEI mandates, a watchdog warned lawmakers. 
Financial asset giants BlackRock and State Street are leveraging their management over billions of dollars in federal employees’ retirement savings to push left-wing politics, according to a Monday <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/Hild-Letter-to-SCHSGA-and-HCOGR-RE-TSP.pdf">letter</a> to top Republican lawmakers from Consumers’ Research obtained by The Daily Wire. The pair manages around $668 billion in federal retirement savings through the Thrift Savings Plan, the federal government’s version of a 401(k) plan. 
“Asset managers like BlackRock using Americans’ hard-earned money to unfairly and illegally push radical political agendas without consent is hardly a new problem, but their control of most of the Thrift Savings Plan takes the scandal to a new level,” Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild told The Daily Wire. “Flagrantly violating fiduciary duty with federal employee dollars begs for congressional scrutiny and more.”
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The letter was sent to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Rand Paul (R-KY). It requested that the lawmakers investigate the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), the agency that administers the Thrift Savings Plan program. 
The letter says that the agency “has contracted with asset managers and proxy advisors that have pursued goals to impose emissions reductions and diversity quotas on companies, rather than focus solely on financial returns as required” by federal law. 
“Examples of BlackRock’s and State Street’s harmful conduct include: (1) using proxy voting power to push companies to adopt emissions targets; (2) maintaining commitments to climate-activist organizations in pursuit of Paris Agreement goals; (3) using internal proxy-voting guidelines that require using engagement and voting to pressure companies to align with net zero; (4) using pension fund assets to advance a net-zero agenda; and (5) succumbing to activist pressure to join climate groups and change their proxy voting to support activist proposals,” Hild wrote in the letter. 
An example of political policies being pushed by BlackRock included <a href="https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/publication/annual-stewardship-report-2024.pdf">voting</a> in 2024 for a shareholder proposal to require Cracker Barrel to establish and publish greenhouse gas emissions targets. It backed similar proposals for companies like Jack in the Box, Wingstop, and Denny’s. 
Hild cited previous <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241226122512/https:/www.ssga.com/library-content/assets/pdf/global/asset-stewardship/proxy-voting-and-engagement-policy.pdf">policies</a> by State Street to generally oppose company boards that are not “composed of at least 30-percent female directors” and “at least one director from an underrepresented racial/ethnic community.”
In recent years, BlackRock has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blackrock-makes-major-change-after-backlash-against-woke-investing">backed away</a> from some of its more recent pushes for activist investing after widespread backlash. In April 2024, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity gave BlackRock a &#8220;B&#8221; for its voting record on &#8220;extreme&#8221; shareholder proposals, up from a &#8220;C&#8221; the previous year. The same report grades State Street as a &#8220;C.&#8221;
&#8220;BlackRock’s CEO, Larry Fink, had been one of the leading voices in support of ESG a few years ago. But last year, under pressure from groups like ours and others, he began to retreat from its ESG advocacy on proxy voting as shareholder proposals have become more extreme,&#8221; the report found.
BlackRock&#8217;s recent global voting <a href="https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/publication/2025-investment-stewardship-voting-spotlight.pdf">spotlight</a> also highlighted that it voted with corporate management on 209 out of 214 votes in the Americas on climate and natural capital. &#8220;We again found that many of these proposals were over-reaching, lacked economic merit, or sought outcomes that were unlikely to promote long-term financial value,&#8221; the report said.
The letter also states that the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board relies on the Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm, for analysis of BlackRock and State Street’s proxy voting record. The firm is also “committed to environmental activism and imposing quotas on company boards,” Hild wrote. 
The agency utilizes quarterly analysis from the Institutional Shareholder Services to ensure that BlackRock and State Street vote in line with their written guidelines. 
“Reliance on ISS is contrary to [federal law’s] sole-interest standard, as ISS pursues an agenda that is incompatible with shareholder value and has made commitments to incorporate ESG into its processes. Contracting with ISS also raises concerns about ISS’s role in recommending votes that would inject race- and sex-based considerations into companies’ practices, which potentially violates federal and state civil rights laws,” Hild wrote. 
Hild wants Congress to press the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to ensure that federal workers’ retirement savings are not being used to push politics. 
“The [FRTIB] owes the public answers, starting with whether it broke the law by allowing these notoriously woke firms to fund their ESG activism with millions of federal workers&#8217; savings. The longer that firms like BlackRock freely manage Thrift Saving Plan assets, the greater the danger to so many Americans&#8217; retirement security,” he said.

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Federal Retirement Dollars Used To Push Leftist Politics, Watchdog Warns

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As climate alarmists gather in New York City for “Climate Week,” a new mobile billboard has popped up that chips away at the alliance between Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul and radical environmental groups.
The mobile billboard features images of Hochul wearing a MAGA-style hat saying “Make Nuclear Great Again,” photos of the vehicle obtained by The Daily Wire show. The mobile billboard highlights Hochul’s recent promise to bring a new nuclear power plant to New York.
The billboard features a quote from Hochul describing plans for the new plant as “a model of 21st century nuclear design.” The mobile first started driving around New York City on Monday and will continue until Wednesday.
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Nuclear power is a form of energy frequently opposed by environmentalist groups who prefer things like wind or solar power. The Daily Wire reached out to multiple environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greenpeace that have previously expressed support for Hochul, yet also oppose nuclear energy.
The Sierra Club <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/nuclear-free" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that it is “unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy” and wants to work to “phase out nuclear as quickly as possible.” The Natural Resource Defense Council has also <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/nuclear-power-101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> skepticism about nuclear energy.
Both those organizations <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/making-oil-companies-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> Hochul’s <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/governor-hochul-signs-bill-make-polluters-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">establishment</a> in December of a “Climate Superfund” that her office claimed <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-landmark-legislation-creating-new-climate-superfund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shifted</a> “the cost of climate adaptation from everyday New Yorkers to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for the pollution.&#8221;
Additionally, Greenpeace <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/climate/issues/nuclear/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that nuclear energy is “dirty, expensive, and dangerous” and argues that it’s “bad for the economy.” The organization previously <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpeace-usa-applauds-new-york-governor-hochuls-moratorium-on-crypto-mining/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applauded</a> Hochul after she signed a moratorium on crypto mining.
President Donald Trump, who ripped into solar and wind power on Tuesday during his speech to the United Nations, took executive action in May “to modernize nuclear regulation, streamline nuclear reactor testing, deploy nuclear reactors for national security, and reinvigorate the nuclear industrial base.”
Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Hochul <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-directs-new-york-power-authority-develop-zero-emission-advanced-nuclear-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directed</a> the New York Power Authority “to develop and construct a zero-emission advanced nuclear power plant.”
That decision was met with criticism from some environmentalists who accused her of adopting Trump policies. The group Public Power NY <a href="https://publicpowerny.org/press-releases/public-power-ny-responds-to-hochuls-order-for-new-york-power-authority-to-build-nuclear-energy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the decision was “based on promises from Donald Trump&#8221; that &#8220;shows just how unserious she is about New Yorkers&#8217; energy bills and climate future.”
Hochul, who is running for re-election, is viewed favorably by fewer than 50% of New Yorkers, <a href="https://sri.siena.edu/2025/09/16/hochul-approval-favorability-ratings-up-a-little-favorability-best-since-jan-24-majority-hochul-works-hard-demonstrates-honesty-integrity-plurality-gets-things-done-provides-dec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to recent polling.

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Mobile Billboard Trolls Kathy Hochul In NYC As She Faces Criticism From Climate Activists

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WASHINGTON — A group representing nearly all major automakers asked the Trump administration Tuesday to roll back aggressive vehicle emissions limits that seek to force the industry to build a rising number of electric vehicles.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents General Motors, Toyota Motor, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and other major automakers, said in a filing with the Environmental Protection Agency that legislation signed by President Donald Trump in June will increase the effective price of EVs and could lead to a near-term decline in EV market share.
They argue that rules finalized last year under President Joe Biden are no longer feasible.
&#8220;The 2027 and later standards are simply not achievable in light of significant market, charging infrastructure, supply chain, affordability, and other challenges as well as recent policy changes enacted,&#8221; the group said.
The 2024 Biden rules aim to cut passenger vehicle fleetwide tailpipe emissions by nearly 50% by 2032 compared with 2027 projected levels. The EPA forecast between 35% and 56% of new vehicles sold between 2030 and 2032 would need to be electric.
On Sept. 30, the $7,500 EV tax credit expires, and automakers warn that &#8220;a significant portion&#8221; of automakers may lose a battery production tax credit for EVs typically worth $3,000 per year next year under the law.
&#8220;This harms not only the automotive manufacturers that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars investing in electric vehicle technology, but also the entire supply chain that has supported these initiatives,&#8221; the group said.
In July, the EPA proposed rescinding the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal foundation for all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations, a move that would end current limits on greenhouse gas pollution from vehicle tailpipes.
Democrats in Congress and environmental groups have called on the EPA to drop its plan and retain the rules.
Automakers argue the EPA should still rewrite the Biden rules, saying they &#8220;still need to be revised to feasible levels to provide certainty for the industry.&#8221; The group said &#8220;such a contingency plan will be critical if motor vehicle GHG standards are retained or reinstated in some way.&#8221;
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul and Nick Zieminski)

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Democrats often tout a study that predicts the global economy will crash this century thanks to climate change. It turns out the study is bogus, according to a new analysis.
The <a href="https://archive.ph/UfbWa">paper</a>, published in the journal Nature last year, claimed that global gross domestic product will plummet by 62% by 2100 compared to where it would be without climate change. About 19% of the global economy will be lost in the next 25 years, the study claimed.
The dire predictions were three times higher than previous estimates, causing alarm over the possibility that climate change could destroy the global economy within people&#8217;s lifetimes.
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Democrats pounced on the study&#8217;s terrifying warnings.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) <a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-170/issue-80/senate-section/article/S3575-2">read</a> the study into the Congressional Record.
&#8220;Climate change is not just about polar bears or green jobs. It is about economic storm warnings to which we had better start paying attention,&#8221; Whitehouse said from the Senate floor in May last year, just weeks after the study came out.
Whitehouse <a href="https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov">says</a> he has &#8220;been at the center of efforts to address climate change.&#8221;
The flawed study was the second most cited climate paper in 2024 by news outlets and on social media, <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2024/">according</a> to one analysis.
However, a new <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09320-4.epdf?sharing_token=3rbBF4IXLwsMKEER39Y9xtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0P8TEvZgfgWlZ-BR6o_g0srhfsE2PjjhNpvdF9g5tn3tk1V8soSo09634cfw2IcMpTvo0EiunI6aYH327RiT5shGydCkhJRZZ9KPqSB8xRMpbmVOKRbMP3qKhAvviNlo60%3D">analysis</a> published in Nature this month found that &#8220;data anomalies&#8221; from one country, Uzbekistan, wildly skewed the &#8220;predicted impacts of climate change.&#8221;
Uzbekistan&#8217;s bad data showed the country&#8217;s GDP falling off a cliff back in 2000 and then nearly doubling in some regions in 2010, among other eyebrow-raising anomalies. The data was so skewed that it upended the study&#8217;s results dramatically.
The country has not experienced these wild swings in its GDP, <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=UZ">according</a> to other <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/uzb/uzbekistan/gdp-gross-domestic-product">sources</a>.
Without Uzbekistan&#8217;s data, the predictions about how climate change would affect the global economy were much less dire — global GDP <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/06/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages/">would</a> drop 23% by 2100, down from 62%, and it would drop just 6% by 2050, not 19%, according to the new analysis.
When the paper&#8217;s mistake came to light, even The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/06/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages/">admitted</a> the study&#8217;s authors made a &#8220;big error.&#8221;
During the peer review process, one anonymous reviewer expressed skepticism as well.
“I find all of this well explained and fairly convincing, yet, purely subjectively, I have a hard time in believing the results, which seem unintuitively large given damages aren’t perfectly persistent,” the reviewer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/06/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages/">said</a> in a peer review <a href="https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-024-07219-0/MediaObjects/41586_2024_7219_MOESM2_ESM.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> on the study.
That reviewer went on to approve the study, however, after speaking with the authors.
The study&#8217;s authors pushed back, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/06/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages/">noting</a> that if they corrected for the Uzbekistan data — but also altered their study&#8217;s methodology — they got similar results showing a plummeting world economy.
Critics are skeptical.
“Science doesn’t work by changing the setup of an experiment to get the answer you want,” said Solomon Hsiang, director of the global policy laboratory at Stanford University and one of the authors of the new analysis on the study&#8217;s flaws.
“This approach is antithetical to the scientific method,” Hsiang <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/06/nature-study-flawed-climate-damages/">told</a> The Washington Post.

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Democrats Love Citing This One Climate Change Study. Turns Out It’s All Bogus.

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A left-wing organization is pumping money into an effort to kill legislation that would prevent banks from denying loans to farmers based on political considerations. The organization, The Daily Wire has learned, has ties to a deeper network of far-left groups, including one that appears to be flush with foreign money.
Unlocking America’s Future is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&amp;ad_type=all&amp;country=US&amp;is_targeted_country=false&amp;media_type=all&amp;search_type=page&amp;view_all_page_id=163734473485371">running ads</a> on Facebook targeting North Carolina and opposing legislation that would <a href="https://www.carolinajournal.com/house-agriculture-committee-approves-anti-esg-farmers-protection-act/">prevent</a> banks from denying loans to farmers based on controversial environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. The group has spent just shy of $30,000 on Facebook ads from early July to early August.
The legislation, its Republican sponsors say, would prevent farmers from being compelled to go along with a political agenda and ensure that lending remains “based upon whether they have good credit or not but not based upon their ESG score.”
But Unlocking America’s future is just a trade name used by an organization set up by established left-wing organizations to bolster Biden in the 2020 election.
Unlocking America’s Future, <a href="https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/EXTUID_4337124">according</a> to a non-profit database and the Washington, D.C., corporate registry, is a trade name used by Climate Power. This left-wing organization was created in the lead-up to the 2020 election as a <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/this-climate-group-has-80m-to-help-biden/">joint project</a> of the Sierra Club, the American Progress Action Fund, and the League of Conservation Voters. The group came on the scene with $80 million ready to deploy in an effort to boost then-candidate Joe Biden.
Under the name “Unlocking America’s Future,” the organization has launched an ad campaign opposing the Farmers Protection Act, targeting Raleigh and other areas with paid ads calling on several state representatives and Governor Josh Stein to reject the proposal.
“Billionaires want to force banks to ignore financial risks, putting North Carolina’s economic future at risk,” read the paid Facebook ads, which began in late May and have continued into August. “Stand up for North Carolina’s economic future by focusing on responsible investing, lowering costs, and creating jobs.”
While the ads grandstand against “billionaires” attempting to exert influence on North Carolina’s politics, the organization has ties to a network of left-wing activist groups tied to a Swiss billionaire.
Climate Power is a project of the Fund for a Better Future, which has been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dark-money-democrats-wyss-politics-elections-601d40cd01569190559d545418afe396">scrutinized</a> as a vehicle that’s allowed foreign money to flood into American politics through issue-advocacy groups, allowing foreigners to exert influence on America’s politics despite a prohibition on foreign donors directly bankrolling candidates for public office.
Swiss billionaire and prominent left-wing donor Hansjörg Wyss was a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dark-money-democrats-wyss-politics-elections-601d40cd01569190559d545418afe396">major backer</a> of the Fund for a Better Future, the Associated Press reported as Climate Power sought to boost Biden’s legislative agenda and support Democratic congressional candidates.
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Climate Power has also pushed the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, at least internally, according to organization documentation. The organization’s 2023 registration form reveals that the group employed racially discriminatory practices when selecting board members.
“The makeup of the board shall be reflective of the diversity of the progress movement and the corporation staff,” the document reads. “The board should not be less than approximately 40% Board members who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color and 51% of Board members who identify as women.”
“The corporation shall use best efforts to ensure that the diversity of the Board is no lesser than the diversity of staff.” it goes on to add.
Climate Power did not respond to a request for comment.

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A young woman on Instagram holds up an armful of green blankets. Every time she feels stressed about the state of the world, she makes a leaf or moss blanket.
“As you can see,” the young woman <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMOjfJWR8nQ/?igsh=cTlvajd6bWY3aHA1">says</a>, referring to the mound in her arms, “the state of the world has not been great.&#8221;
A mother <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/health/climate-anxiety-therapy.html">describes</a> the wave of guilt and shame that floods her when she contemplates buying plastic-wrapped snacks at Trader Joe’s. College students in an exercise designed to help them create plans to achieve their goals <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">struggle</a> to envision anything but blankness or the apocalypse when picturing the future.
All around us, adults and children are struggling with their mental health after years of being bombarded with messages that a climate catastrophe is both inevitable and imminent. These feelings of dread and helplessness, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/17/gen-z-depression-anxiety-future-workforce">particularly</a> in the youngest generations, have inspired a new term: “climate” or “eco” anxiety.
Widespread climate anxiety is fueling the growth of a new specialty, with some psychologists building practices around treating the problem. Yet how to approach treatment has caused its own controversy. Mental health professionals like me are trained to keep our own views out of a counseling relationship. This would include offering any opinions about anthropogenic climate change. Other groups, such as climate activists, react poorly to viewing what they consider well-founded anxiety over climate as dysfunctional thinking.
But any thought patterns that inhibit daily functioning and contribute to depression, social withdrawal or distressing feelings need to be treated. In trying to raise awareness of a changing climate and potential implications, authority figures like teachers, topic experts and even hyperbolic climate news articles have gone too far.
Dr. Sarah Ray is the professor who <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">discovered</a> her students simply couldn’t envision a positive future. “It wasn’t just that they were living in a scary world,” she said. “It was that they were getting information about a scary world in a very particular way.”
The answer is to stop scaring people. Fear is rarely motivating. People have to feel as if they can make a change or a difference. Fear tactics only encourage feelings of helplessness and overwhelm, leading to avoidance and disconnection.
Adults must learn how to navigate these issues for their own improved mental health, as well as for effective parenting and education of the next generation. Teaching children about climate change has too often strayed from providing necessary information to dumping unfiltered fears on impressionable kids.
“It&#8217;s essential for adults to learn how to manage stress and anxiety in their own lives so we don&#8217;t pass it on to the next generation,” licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist Amy Morin said in <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/202408/10-reasons-todays-kids-are-more-anxious-than-ever">Psychology Today</a>.
This might look like building better habits, such as limiting exposure to articles about climate (stop doomscrolling).
Another technique used in cognitive behavioral therapy is redirecting attention from something distressing to something lovable as a step towards finding agency. For example, I am passionate about reducing landfill waste. When I feel afraid and angry about the size of trash piles in the ocean or how much garbage we export to other countries, I try to remember that the feelings are secondary emotions pointing to what I love. I care because I love my community and my country. I care about the world. I love my children, and I want them to inherit a planet that is healthier, not more diseased from human carelessness. I believe we are called to be good stewards.
I can’t teach my children those values by yelling at them for being wasteful or terrorizing them with scary photos, just as I can’t keep them from using drugs by enrolling them in DARE. Instead, I have to teach them to live for something beyond themselves, but also to know that while they can’t solve massive problems on their own, there is hope in performing small positive actions.
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If they are not overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem, they are better positioned to engage in the first place, individually and then in community. They will also be less vulnerable to misrepresentation of the facts if their ability to apply critical thinking is not shut down by the fear-triggered “fight, flight, or freeze” response of the amygdala in the brain. For example, instead of believing we should abandon fossil fuels, which would actually destabilize communities, they can evaluate the possibility of using technology to lessen their impact while pursuing more sustainable solutions.
Dr. Thomas Doherty has built a practice around helping people with climate anxiety. Along with coauthor Susan Clayton, they were among the first nearly 15 years ago <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-09485-003">to suggest</a> that climate change would have a psychological impact on people. After Portland experienced a high-pressure system called a “heat-dome” that sent temperatures soaring, one client asked Dr. Doherty if they were all doomed.
“Dr. Doherty listened quietly. Then he told her, choosing his words carefully, that the rate of climate change suggested by the data was not as swift as what she was envisioning.
‘In the future, even with worst-case scenarios, there will be good days,’ he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/health/climate-anxiety-therapy.html">told</a> her, according to his notes. “‘Disasters will happen in certain places. But, around the world, there will be good days. Your children will also have good days.’”
Humans won’t be able to solve the problems we are facing if, in pursuit of gaining acknowledgement of serious problems, we believe and have taught our youngest generations that there is nothing to live for. Dr. Ray may have put it best.
“We just need better thoughts,” she <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/how-to-age-up-on-a-warming-planet/682762/">said</a>. “It’s not about 10 things you can do to save the planet. There’s a hundred million books out there. This is like 10 things you can think about to save the planet.”
Better thoughts can be practiced. In the next encounter with a dramatic headline about climate change, try to pause. Remember first that every climate news and opinion article today has one goal: to get a reader to click. Headlines are written with that sole aim in mind. Fear sells. Don’t fall for it. I tell my clients to notice their feelings, then to redirect their thoughts to what they love and the specific things they are practicing to stay true to their values. This will energize people to continue to be part of solutions rather than perpetuating a cycle of impotent fear.
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Alysha Tagert, MSW, LICSW, is a mental health professional specializing in anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Republican attorneys general are putting the pressure on a British climate activist group targeting the oil and gas industry and pushing an “unachievable climate agenda” that could jeopardize American energy independence and food supply. 
Over a dozen Republican AGs, led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, demanded Friday that the United Kingdom-based climate group Science Based Targets Initiative fork over documents on its work with companies to promote net zero emissions goals. The officials said that the group&#8217;s net zero commitments could run afoul of federal antitrust laws and state consumer protection laws. 
“Net zero programs are unrealistic and harm both American agriculture and industry. Making net zero a goal actively harms Americans, creates risk for energy independence, and increases the cost of food,” the officials wrote in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/09.07_-_FINAL_-_SBTi_Letter.pdf">letter</a> exclusively shared with The Daily Wire. “Some economic arrangements are illegal because they are unfair or unreasonably harmful to competition; the ‘good intentions’ behind them are irrelevant.”
Science Based Targets Initiative “assesses and validates companies’ and financial institutions’ targets” through its subsidiary SBTi services and “develops standards, tools and guidance to enable companies and financial institutions to set science-based targets in line with the latest climate science,&#8221; according to the group&#8217;s <a href="https://sciencebasedtargets.org/about-us">website</a>.
The group aims to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions and achieve net zero levels by at least 2050. Last month, it <a href="https://files.sciencebasedtargets.org/production/files/FINZ-in-brief.pdf?_gl=1*1ufvk31*_gcl_au*MTk1MTIzNDA4Mi4xNzUzMzY5NDgw*_ga*NTY0OTY4ODM1LjE3NTMzNjk0ODA.*_ga_22VNHNTFT3*czE3NTMzNjk0ODAkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTMzNzE1NTYkajYwJGwwJGgxOTY4MDIwOTA4">rolled</a> out a new “fossil fuel transition policy requirement” that “sets out clear steps and timelines for ceasing new financial activities and insurance services to the fossil fuel industry.” 
“SBTi is trying to redo President Biden’s radical green scheme,” Bird told The Daily Wire. “If successful, they’ll hurt farmers, energy producers, and Iowans. Their program limits output of goods or services but also net zero programs are unrealistic and harm both American agriculture and industry. Making net zero a goal actively harms Americans, creates risk for energy independence, and increases the cost of safe, healthy, nutritious food.” 
Similar organizations, including Climate Action 100+ and the Net Zero Asset Managers Alliances, have struggled in recent months after they lost major participants like BlackRock and other major financial institutions amid congressional and state scrutiny. 
In January, the House Judiciary Committee celebrated the exodus of groups from net zero alliances, with Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) calling the trend “a huge win for freedom and American prosperity.”
At one point, Net Zero Asset Managers Alliances, which says its goal is to push net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, boasted its members controlled over $57 trillion in assets. The company has now suspended all activities following the departures.
However, the Republican attorneys general said they were concerned that the Science Based Targets Initiative was cropping up to push similar mandates and initiatives. 
“As did those who subscribed to the previous net-zero alliances, members agree that they will perform certain functions — here, shutting off funding and insurance to oil, gas, and coal expansion — to be validated by SBTi,” they wrote. “But companies cannot collude to refuse access to their services, whether they do so in a smoke-filled room or launder that collusion through a third party.”
In addition to Bird, the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming, and West Virginia signed onto the letter.
They requested that the Science Based Targets Initiative provide communications by September 8 between the group and its members on how climate commitments would be met, how financial institutions&#8217; net zero goals were developed, and information on the group&#8217;s funding.
The Science Based Targets Initiative has already faced pressure from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who opened an investigation last week into SBTi to see if it may be violating consumer protection and antitrust laws. 
The attorneys general&#8217;s actions were backed by American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac and Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild. 
“SBTi’s financial standards aren’t just unrealistic, they’re potentially illegal, coordinating global firms to cut off essential industries from capital and insurance. These actions drive up energy and food prices for American families, all while outsourcing control to foreign NGOs and U.N.-backed pressure groups,” Isaac told The Daily Wire. “Americans aren’t going to sit back while unelected activists dictate economic policy from across the Atlantic.&#8221;

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A Kentucky Republican running to replace Senator Mitch McConnell deleted multiple environmental-themed tweets just months before launching his campaign, a Daily Wire review found.
Businessman Nate Morris deleted a number of tweets promoting environmentalist concepts and celebrating “World Environment Day” in early 2025, just months before launching his Senate campaign. Morris, the CEO of Morris Industries, has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3466274/deleted-dei-posts-culture-war-kentucky-senate-gop-primary/">pledged</a> to fight diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment mandates if elected, saying his experience as a businessman showed him the need to “end this crap.” 
Morris is running an anti-establishment campaign to replace McConnell, accusing his opponents — Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) and former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) — of being the former Senate Majority Leader&#8217;s puppets. He has <a href="https://natemorris.com/">pledged</a> to support mass deportations, opposing amnesty, banning doctors from doing transgender procedures on kids, cutting federal funding to woke schools, opposing gun control, and backing President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. 
The deleted tweets included multiple posts promoting the concept of a circular economy, a movement <a href="https://www.epa.gov/circulareconomy/what-circular-economy">defined</a> by the Environmental Protection Agency as a model that “keeps materials and products in circulation for as long as possible” and “an important part of slowing climate change.” The concept, promoted by organizations like the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/circular-economy/">World Economic Forum</a> and the <a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/circular_economy_14_march.pdf">United Nations</a>, frequently comes alongside government regulations and mandates. 
“A Circular economy generates no waste. To get to that point, we will need to change minds and change habits. #EnvironemntalInnovation,” Morris wrote in a May 8, 2020, tweet that has now been deleted. 
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-954845" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/May-8-2020-deleted-tweet.png" alt="" width="1462" height="1189" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/May-8-2020-deleted-tweet.png 1462w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/May-8-2020-deleted-tweet-300x244.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/May-8-2020-deleted-tweet-708x576.png 708w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/May-8-2020-deleted-tweet-768x625.png 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1462px) 100vw, 1462px" /></div>
On June 5, 2020, Morris shared an article called “A Future Without Waste,” writing: “Changing habits. Changing minds. Changing the world in small and difficult – yet impactful – steps. There can be no alternative. #WorldEnvironmentDay #EnvironmentalInnovation.”
Two other tweets from around the same time were deleted related to the “circular economy,” include one from June 29, 2020, where he wrote “we must do everything in our power to create a truly circular, free market economy and make the planet a better place for future generations” and another from July 10, 2020 sharing an <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/editor-can-circular-economy-help-reduce-waste">article</a> from National Geographic that said that a circular economy could “save the world.” 
“I’m glad to see [National Geographic] raising awareness about the critical need to move toward a [circular economy]. It is a realistic goal and we can make it happen through [American innovation],” he wrote. 
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-954851" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/July-10-2020-deleted-tweet.png" alt="" width="1387" height="1182" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/July-10-2020-deleted-tweet.png 1387w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/July-10-2020-deleted-tweet-300x256.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/July-10-2020-deleted-tweet-676x576.png 676w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/July-10-2020-deleted-tweet-768x654.png 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1387px) 100vw, 1387px" />
The tweets were all deleted in early 2025, prior to the launching of the Senate campaign in June on Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;Triggered&#8221; podcast. 
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Trump Jr. vouched for Morris’s anti-ESG credentials. 
“Few people have been more outspoken against ESG and woke capital than me over the past five years, and I can say with total certainty that Nate is 100% aligned with us on supporting the parallel economy, combating ESG, and destroying woke capital once and for all,” he said.
“Nate hasn’t just talked the talk on these issues either — he actually put his money where his mouth is and invested in Vivek Ramaswamy’s anti-ESG investment fund.&#8221;
In July 2024, Morris Industries <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240725415339/en/Morris-Industries-Invests-in-Series-B-Round-of-Strive-Enterprises">invested</a> in Strive, an anti-woke wealth management venture backed by Ramaswamy.
In recent months, Morris Holdings removed renewable drinking water company Source Global from its list of select holdings on its website. Source Global includes major investors like BlackRock, Bill Gates, and Duke Energy. 
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“Nate does not have a meaningful position in Source Global, which is why it no longer appears on the Morris Holdings website,” Morris campaign spokesman Conor McGuinness told The Daily Wire. “At no point has Nate ever advocated for government-mandated anything.&#8221;
Previously <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3466274/deleted-dei-posts-culture-war-kentucky-senate-gop-primary/">deleted</a> blog posts from Morris’ time as CEO of Rubicon, a large recycling company, have come under scrutiny for their promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG). For example, in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250418092835/https:/www.rubicon.com/blog/elizabeth-montoya-board-of-directors/">one post</a> from September 2020, Morris praised a new board member of Rubicon for helping the company remain “at the forefront of the ESG movement.”
In another <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250312153932/https:/www.rubicon.com/blog/we-must-listen-we-must-lead/">deleted post</a> from June 1, 2020, Morris wrote that he was “feeling profound sadness and anger at the tragic events of recent weeks&#8221; in the wake of the death of George Floyd. 
“The protests we are seeing are a manifestation of the pain and anger that so many are feeling,” he wrote. “While it is important that we understand that pain and anger, it cannot bring back the lives that have been lost or undo the past injustices that have plagued our nation for generations. That pain and anger must fuel real, measurable, and decisive action to light a better path forward.”
Another <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250513063137/https:/www.rubicon.com/news/rubicon-global-joins-ceo-action-diversity-inclusion/">pos</a>t highlighted Morris’ decision to sign a DEI commitment, which included pledges “to have complex discussions about diversity and inclusion, to implement and expand upon unconscious bias education, and to share best and unsuccessful diversity and inclusion practices.”
“I was at Rubicon when it got its first round of funding in 2011 and returned a decade later when it was a more mature business. Nate was always known to be a conservative Republican and a Trump supporter; it was no secret, really,” Graham Salazar, former employee of Rubicon, told The Daily Wire.
“While he wasn’t overtly political at work, he did push back against progressive employees who wanted to bring more activism into the company culture. That kind of pressure was common in startups, and it was obvious he didn’t go along with it.”
Barr and Cameron, Morris&#8217;s main opponents, have accused the businessman of exaggerating his conservative credentials, criticizing him in particular over the Rubicon DEI pledge.

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President Trump&#8217;s push to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/22/republicans-free-market-energy-00465122">boost energy</a> affordability by slashing green regulations and climate lawfare has been a powerful yet undercovered plank of his second term. Drastically changing course from the energy-restrictive policies of “Bidenomics” is a key factor that propelled Trump back to the White House. To keep pace with MAGA on energy independence, Congress is launching a fresh <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-investigates-bloomberg-philanthropies-for-partisan-activism-with-state-attorneys-general/">probe</a> into the complex network and funding of lawsuits aimed at undermining affordable energy projects.
It’s a move that could finally reset climate and energy policies to benefit the American consumer above lawyers.
For the last decade, state attorneys general&#8217;s offices across the country have waged lawfare against energy producers and suppliers, using state statutes to <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/state-ags-rebuked-for-soliciting-billionaires-in-climate-cases/">issue lawsuits</a> seeking maximum financial penalties for climate liability, including <a href="https://stateline.org/2024/04/04/after-a-long-slog-climate-change-lawsuits-will-finally-put-big-oil-on-trial/">high-profile cases</a> in Hawaii and Minnesota against oil and gas giants.
Many lawyers and staff in these offices have been trained by ideological climate change university <a href="https://stateimpactcenter.org/ag-work/ag-actions">programs</a> like the State Energy &amp; Environmental Impact Center at NYU, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the giving arm of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s financial empire.
In the probe announced <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-investigates-bloomberg-philanthropies-for-partisan-activism-with-state-attorneys-general/">in July</a>, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is putting the congressional microscope on these shady programs, revealing how harmful they have been to keeping energy costs low. They’ve already demonstrated the significant influence these programs had within President Biden’s administration.
“The Bloomberg-NYU partisan agenda will likely hurt working-class Americans in the name of the partisan globalist climate-agenda,” said Comer, adding that the partisan climate law agenda “undermines faith” in the impartial justice system.
It’s no coincidence that David Hayes, the former executive director of NYU’s climate litigation program, was a <a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/david-hayes-biden-special-assistant-president-climate">top climate advisor</a> to Biden in his single term.
It’s the right moment to seek <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/07/22/house-gop-takes-aim-at-dcs-climate-lawsuit-eed-00465782">accountability</a> for the failed energy policies of the Biden Administration and the well-funded law school networks that sustain and push petty climate litigation, and both the legislative and executive branches are right to do so.
Our judicial system has been captured by ideological interests that seek to force consumers to live with fewer and costlier options when it comes to powering their homes and businesses.
The climate lawfare brigade purports to care about climate change and the environment, but their only goal so far has been to try to extract high-dollar settlements from energy suppliers. These symbolic wins for climate activists serve to drive up energy and electricity prices for consumers, as energy companies divert more resources to legal fees than to innovation and investment in new solutions.
Who is the winner in this scenario? Not everyday Americans.
Although consumers read headlines about “<a href="https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/03/case-questions-climate-change-culpability">climate culpability</a>&#8221; and <a href="https://stateimpactcenter.org/ag-work/pro-environment-federal-litigation">settlements</a> with energy companies brokered by blue-state AGs, these are cases about money and ideological points more than proving wrongdoing.
There is no attention paid to actual climate solutions that would benefit society at large. As we’ve seen from climate lawsuits <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article296546349.html">filed</a> against nuclear energy providers, a power source that is close to the most renewable and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48480/R48480.2.pdf">sustainable</a> energy source on the planet, it’s really not about finding cleaner power sources either.
This is the same movement that notched a big win <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165475">last week</a> with the International Court of Justice issuing a ruling to mandate all countries curb their emissions or be held economically and legally liable in international law, a laughable case that the US will rightly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/rubio-eliminates-climate-office-00308505">ignore</a>.
Ultimately, radical activists must reconcile with the fact that no one entity or person will ever be found to be the singular cause of climate change, because we’ve all been clients and willing customers. That&#8217;s why the Environmental Protection Agency is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winning-trumps-epa-wrecks-the-radical-green-agenda">now moving to scrap</a> the 2009 &#8220;endangerment finding&#8221; for greenhouse gas emissions. A lawless administrative state has created a set of policies that incentivize the petty lawsuits being funded by fringe climate activists.
This makes the Comer investigation even more critical to all Americans concerned about the cost of living, and further underscores why we should consider federal lawfare liability reforms that would put most of these frivolous cases to rest. <a href="https://consumerchoicecenter.org/floridas-liability-lawfare-reform/">Some states,</a> such as Florida and Georgia, have already done this.
The Trump Administration and Congress have to stay laser-focused on this issue, as well as other kitchen-table concerns that drove Americans to the polls last November. Affordability, particularly when it comes to keeping consumers’ lights on, should always be top of mind.
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Yaël Ossowski writes about energy policy and is deputy director of the Consumer Choice Center in Washington, D.C.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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One of the biggest moves made in modern history in the regulatory state occurred this week. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-greenhouse-gases-obama-trump-steve-koonin-67fcb2ce?mod=hp_opin_pos_1">moved to repeal</a> the 2009 so-called endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions.
The Clean Air Act, which was put into place in the 1970s, authorized the EPA to regulate pollutants like ozone, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and others that might endanger public health or welfare. 
But the EPA suggested, under Barack Obama, that the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate carbon emissions, which is insane. 
The Clean Air Act was meant to stop particulate matter. It was meant to stop the breaking down of the ozone layer. It was not meant to deal with carbon, and particularly carbon dioxide, which is a natural byproduct of breathing. 
Carbon dioxide is not a danger to human beings in the environment. You may not like what it does in terms of global climate change. But the idea that the EPA has authority under the Clean Air Act is wrong. If Congress wants to give the EPA that authority, then it certainly could. But it never did. 
The Supreme Court found in 2007 that greenhouse gases could qualify as pollutants under an extraordinarily broad misreading of the law. “There is some evidence that elevated carbon dioxide concentrations and climate changes can lead to changes in aeroallergens that could increase the potential for allergenic illnesses,” the Obama 2009 endangerment finding stated. 
Now the EPA is revoking the previous policy. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-greenhouse-gases-obama-trump-steve-koonin-67fcb2ce?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjNDB5-v2W5AWInkM3wgvwDH7QHcGNmdXIjN6_-Uu1CHb-Ilh_p391soX3w2uE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688a5b6a&amp;gaa_sig=qeRIhaSN78lB5BrQ0s6rFUZyXLR8Enkln4V2Bv7sQbiCNXOc57C5dRowpTEBDBXQLeD75GPTigdc2QTCjcjnJA%3D%3D">wrote</a>: 
<blockquote>The Energy Department on Tuesday published a comprehensive analysis of climate science and its uncertainties by five outside scientists. One is Steven Koonin who served in the Obama Administration and is a contributor to these pages. The crucial point is that CO2 is different from the pollutants that Congress expressly authorized EPA to regulate.
Those pollutants “are subject to regulatory control because they cause local problems depending on concentrations that include nuisances (odor, visibility), damage to plants, and, at high enough exposure levels, toxicological effects in humans,&#8221; the report notes. “In contrast, CO2 is odorless, does not affect visibility and has no toxicological effects at ambient levels.”</blockquote>
In other words, higher levels of CO2 in the air from fossil fuels won’t make you sick.
You&#8217;re not going to get sick from CO2 in the air. Thus, the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are taking this on. The Clean Air Act no longer applies in our interpretation to greenhouse gases. 
What does that mean? It means something extraordinary for the American economy. Among other things, such as a massive deregulatory environment, the alleged cost of regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act amounts to roughly $54 billion per year. If you multiply that out over the course of the last decade and a half, you&#8217;re talking about a cost in excess of $800 billion, all based on a regulatory agency radically exceeding its boundaries.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright told me:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s just been a huge entanglement into American life. Big brother climate regulations from the government that don’t do anything meaningful for global greenhouse gas emissions. They don&#8217;t change any health outcomes for Americans, but they massively grow the government. &#8230; So administrator Lee Zeldin, is reviewing that and saying, “Hey, we don&#8217;t believe that greenhouse gases are a significant endangerment to the American public, and they shouldn&#8217;t be regulated by the EPA.”
The EPA does not have authority to regulate them because Congress never passed such a law. &#8230; I reached out to five, prestigious climate scientists that are real scientists in my mind … and we published a long critical overview of climate science and its impact on Americans. And that was released yesterday on the DOE Website, and I highly recommend everyone to give it a read. </blockquote>
I asked him what were the biggest findings from that report that he commissioned at the Department of Energy.
“Maybe the single biggest one that everyone should be aware of is the ceaseless repeating that climate change is making storms more frequent and more severe and more dangerous. It&#8217;s just nonsense. That&#8217;s never been in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. It&#8217;s just not true. But the media and politicians and activists just repeatedly repeat it,” he replied.
“We&#8217;ve just driven up the price of energy and reduced choice to American consumers without meaningfully moving global greenhouse gas emissions at all,” he said. “And when I talk to activists or politicians about it, they&#8217;re not even that concerned about it and say it. They don&#8217;t act as if their real goal is to incrementally reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Their real goal is for the government and for them — a small number of people — to decide what&#8217;s appropriate behavior for all Americans.”
“We just need some common sense back around energy and climate change. That&#8217;s where the Trump administration is headed across the administration, not just in Zeldin and myself, but everyone in the administration. We just want Americans to have a government that follows basic common sense,” he concluded.
Exactly.

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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for an investigation into a Chinese firm suspected of engaging in &#8220;climate lawfare.&#8221;
Kobach wrote to Bondi that Energy Foundation China&#8217;s &#8220;environmental lawfare poses a growing challenge for American industry and the American consumer because it drives up energy costs. … It also weakens our national security and places us at a strategic disadvantage with our adversaries in China.&#8221;
The Kansas attorney general recently testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-exposes-chinas-plot-to-undermine-american-energy-a-coordinated-assault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on the same topic, alleging that Energy Foundation China — a San Francisco-based climate activist group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party — funnels money to American climate groups to drown American firms in climate-related lawsuits.
&#8220;It is evident that China&#8217;s asymmetric warfare against the United States extends to our nation&#8217;s courtrooms and state legislatures,&#8221; Kobach said in his <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/29618a0d-bcc1-b75b-d41b-439177ef3902/2025-06-25%20PM%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Kobach%20-%20updated.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> before the committee. &#8220;The CCP plainly has a strategy of driving the United States away from domestic energy sources and increasing U.S. dependence on sources that rely on a Chinese supply of solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies.&#8221;
The committee hearing, &#8220;Enter The Dragon– China and the Left&#8217;s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance,&#8221; focused on the ways the CCP may be interfering with the American energy sector, which was detailed in a <a href="https://statearmor.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/State-Armor-Who-is-Energy-Foundation-China-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by State Armor, a research group aimed at exposing CCP activity in the United States.
While the CCP develops green technologies like solar panels and windmills, it advocates for climate legislation in America through Energy Foundation China, hoping to make America dependent on imported Chinese-produced technology, according to the report.
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) also noted in the hearing that another group is reportedly training judges to sway in favor of those pursuing restrictive climate policies.
Cruz noted that the Climate Judiciary Project, which claims to be impartial and uninvolved in litigation, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/climate-justice-group-deep-ties-judges-experts-involved-litigation-claims-impartiality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> trains and supports judges who preside over cases of climate litigation in ways that heavily influence their decisions in favor of the climate agenda.
Kobach wrote in his letter that, &#8220;The Senate hearing exposed that China&#8217;s ongoing asymmetric campaign against the United States extends to our nation&#8217;s courtrooms and state legislatures, and that the EFC plays a central role in that campaign.&#8221;
&#8220;This three-pronged strategy — foreign funding, mass litigation, and judicial indoctrination — is a full-spectrum assault on American energy independence,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And while China drills and digs, we sue and shut down.&#8221;
&#8220;Every day, Communist China is waging a war on American energy to make us more reliant on technology that is built and controlled by the CCP,&#8221; State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci said in a statement to The Daily Wire. &#8220;As part of their strategy to control our energy grid and supply chains, they control non-profits and co-opt left-wing environmental groups to drive the CCP&#8217;s agenda through our own court systems and universities.&#8221;
Kobach concluded his letter to Bondi by calling for an investigation into Energy Foundation China&#8217;s deep-rooted connection to the CCP and its involvement in changing American climate legislation.
&#8220;I respectfully urge the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the actions of the EFC in America, including its ties to climate lawfare in the courts,&#8221; Kobach wrote. &#8220;It is important to learn the full extent of the CCP&#8217;s reach into the ongoing campaign of environmental lawfare in our state and federal courts.&#8221;
Lucci supported Kobach&#8217;s call for an investigation, adding that, &#8220;No sane country would allow its strategic adversary to severely damage its national security, control its energy supply chains, and insert kill switches into its energy grid, all driven through united front influence operations.&#8221;
&#8220;The evidence is clear,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;EFC should be permanently shut down.&#8221;

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