The Biden administration has poured at least $20 billion into environmental groups, most of which have only just been founded recently, Post found.
In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check of nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based in the Climate United Fund group that is not listed in the IRS charity database and has not filed with the federal government.
The non-profit fund was established only in Delaware on November 30, 2023 and November 30, 2023. This is five months before Harris handed over the cash in April 2024.
The Climate United Fund then announced in a press release “The Historic Investment,” and the group's work “providing clean, airy benefits and improving energy security.” ”
However, the company is so new that there is no public accounting for how to plan to spend $7 billion.
The project has been announced, including a $10.8 million “pre-development loan” solar project on tribal lands in eastern Oregon and Idaho, and a $32 million solar energy project at the University of Arkansas, representing only a bucket of grant amounts.
“Ethically speaking, that's a concern,” said Laurie Styron, CEO of Charity Watch, an independent charity watchdog group.
“When there are so many established groups in a good track record climate space, what was the purpose of creating an intermediary entity? What was it added? [by] So, do you do that, especially with such large taxpayer funds? ”
The Charity Cash served as Bill Clinton's White House chief from the Luxury Slash Fund of Taxpayer Taxpayer's Large Climate Supervised by Hillary Clinton's President's failed political consultant John Podesta.
President in 2022 Joe Biden nominated Podesta to direct the Climate Fund; This was attributed to the Inflation Reduction Act, a 2022 law aimed at fighting climate change and creating clean energy.
Last year, EPA advisor Brent Efron We've been caught up in a video explaining how the agency hastily split the associated $20 billion climate fund held by Citibank before the end of the Biden administration.
“They get the money as soon as possible [Trump Administration] Come in… It looks like we're on the Titanic, we're throwing out the gold sticks from the edge,” he said in a video posted online by activist group Project Veritas.
When he commented that Efron “was acting on his personal abilities,” he said, “he has expressed it.” [his] Mark S. Zaid, his representative lawyer, told the Post. He also claimed that the funds that the comments were under control were “having nothing involved.”
Now the new EPA chief Lee Zeldin said he wants to keep the cash that the Climate Fund excluded. On Monday, he called on inspectors at the agency to investigate.
“The Biden EPA 'Gold Bar' scheme was designed while throwing funds at the far left organization pushing DEI and environmental justice while limiting government oversight,” Zeldin wrote in a statement.
“Of the eight pass-through entities that received funds from a $20 billion tax pot, various recipients show little qualifying to process a single dollar, let alone billions. I have zero tolerance for waste and abuse at the EPA.”
A spokesperson for the Climate United Fund told the Post that the Biden-controlled EPA “encouraged groups that encouraged the groups to work with the coalition” and would receive cash.
She said the EPA cash sent to the Climate United Fund had its associated nonprofit Calvert Impact.
In this post, we found three entities called Calvert Impact. They are all based in Bethesda, making it more difficult to track the flow of money.
In another example, the similarly appointed Judicial Climate Fund is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization established in 2023, has not yet filed a tax return with the IRS, and there is no information about the principals of its website.
The group received $940 million from the EPA. The goal is to work with the “Community Partners” to “focus on promoting transformational investment and reducing pollution.”
Another third group, Power Forward Communities Inc. – was registered in 2023 and published, showing a total of just $100 revenues on its tax returns for the year.
However, according to public records, Columbia, Maryland, based in a Maryland-based nonprofit, won $2 billion from the EPA fund.
The group said it is part of a coalition of five other charities, including Worldwide and Rewiring.
However, according to public records, the US rewiring was registered only as a business association in Delaware a year later.
According to a February 24 press release from the Power Forward Community, the group has already said $539 million “creating good-salary jobs by expanding and storing affordable housing, improving air quality and increasing energy efficiency.”
Tim Mayopuros, former CEO of housing finance company Fannie May and a Democrat donor, is listed as the group's interim president and CEO, according to what was published.
He donated $5,600 to Joe Biden's presidential election in 2020, federal filings show.
Power Forward Communities does not have a list of board members on its website, but it lists government affairs VPs, Communications VPs and special assistant jobs.
Justice Climate Fund and Power Forward Communities Inc. did not return a post office call requesting comment.
The FBI and the Justice Department have both begun investigating the grant, and the multi-billion dollar bank accounts were frozen when the EPA attempts to regain it, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
