It has been an open secret for years now that big foundations funded by billionaire families like the Gates, Getty, and Rockefeller clans have played a big role in funding the various climate alarmist campaigns to vilify so-called "Fossil fuels." Lesser known until recently is the role these billionaire foundations play in convincing various government entities to travel down the same path.
Fox News reported this week that several billionaire interests, led by the Rockefeller Family Fund, put pressure on the New York Attorney General's office during 2015 to target ExxonMobil with a subpoena for records related to an investigation into the company's early research related to global warming.
"We've spent years tracking the nexus between left-wing environmental groups and their billionaire funders, and this once again proves the connection between the financial, ideological, and political influences on the widespread legal attacks on the American energy industry," Tom Pyle, president of the Institute For Energy Research, said in an email.
The RFF was in the news earlier this month when, on Feb. 8, The Wall Street Journal reported it and other left-wing billionaire interests - including Michael Bloomberg - were instrumental in pressuring the Biden White House to implement its January "Pause" on the permitting of proposed new liquefied natural gas export facilities.
Citing sources "Familiar with the effort," the WSJ writers detail a billionaire-backed campaign that began four years ago to co-opt and organize local community activist groups to oppose new LNG export capacity even as U.S. LNG became such a crucial supply source for American allies in Europe in the wake of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Well, yes, they did, but to what end? While they are all promoted using lofty propaganda depicting these campaigns as efforts to curb the malleable concept of "Climate change," what these and other efforts by the RFF and their billionaire collaborators invariably boil down to is increasing the cost of energy for the masses, diminishing U.S. energy security, and making our country increasingly reliant on China.
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