Senate Hearing Reveals CCP-Linked Organization’s Influence on Climate Lawfare to Harm US Energy
During the hearing, Senator Ted Cruz discussed the CCP strategy of “judicial capture,” whereby U.S. courts are influenced to weaken American energy production capabilities.
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), held a high-profile hearing titled “Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance” to examine allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), foreign donors, and leftist legal activism are engaged in a coordinated effort to undermine U.S. energy independence.
Enter the Dragon? China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominancehttps://t.co/9uAAMHkX5M
— R.C. Davis (@MrRCDavis) June 26, 2025
State Armor, a group that opposes the CCP, recently released a disturbing report on Energy Foundation China (EFC) activities. EFC is based in San Francisco and appears to be run by CCP members who use the organization to fund climate-cult research and activist groups.
The “science” and these “experts,” in turn, promote policy and legislation detrimental to the American energy industry. The report also argues that the CCP uses organizations like EFC to make the U.S. more dependent on Chinese-made “green” technologies (i.e., solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicle infrastructure).
EFC is led by individuals with strong ties to Chinese government agencies. Its members include CEO Ji Zou, a former official in China’s National Development and Reform Commission. The foundation’s operations in China are supervised by this same government body, and it has formal partnerships with Chinese state agencies and universities to promote green development projects that align with China’s strategic interests.
In the U.S., EFC has funneled millions of dollars to major climate advocacy groups (like the Rocky Mountain Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council), funded research at top universities (such as Harvard, UC Berkeley, and UCLA), and supported policy initiatives at multiple levels of government. These efforts have promoted policies (e.g., green-energy-powered homes, Net Zero, phasing out fossil fuels) that would require infrastructure and components largely sourced from China, thereby increasing U.S. reliance on Chinese supply chains.
We all observed how well relying on China’s supply chains worked out for us during the early days of the COVID pandemic.
The Federalist’s Abigail Nichols noted that during the hearing, Chairman Ted Cruz explained how ECP activities are a clear national security threat.
In describing the first prong, Cruz highlighted a “strategic alliance … between leftist billionaires, radical environmental organizations, and the Chinese Communist Party.” He said, “One of the primary vehicles for this alliance is Energy Foundation China, which has funneled upwards of $12 million to U.S.-based climate advocacy groups since 2020.”
This money flows “directly to aggressive litigation outfits” that file lawsuits against American gas and oil companies, Cruz said. He later said the “second prong” of the assault is a “legal barrage” aimed at bankrupting such companies. Cruz said more than 30 lawsuits have been filed in “at least 15 Democratic-run jurisdictions, including by 12 states” against U.S. oil, gas, and coal producers.
Cruz also discussed “judicial capture,” whereby U.S. courts have been drawn into the CCP’s strategies to weaken American energy production capabilities.
“Courts are not supposed to be laboratories for political activism, and judges are not supposed to be trained by the plaintiffs’ bar that is receiving their funding from the Chinese Communist Party. What we are witnessing is judicial capture, driven by ideology, powered by money, and tolerated by far too many,” Cruz said.
Must Watch: @SenTedCruz calls out the Left’s judicial capture scheme being carried out by the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project:
“This is not how a constitutional republic functions. Courts are not supposed to be laboratories for political activism, and… pic.twitter.com/An20n4SiEB
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) June 25, 2025
Laughably, the Democratic senators on the panel blatantly ignored all the evidence and labeled the analysis a “conspiracy theory.” They argued that the real threat to the U.S. is climate change itself, not foreign influence via environmental lawfare.
Democrats were quick to push back on his claims, with Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse, ranking member of the subcommittee on federal courts and oversight, lodging his own accusations.
“This hearing is a perfect display of projection: blaming your adversary for what you are doing. Dark money? Judicial capture? Propaganda? Oh my! The fossil fuel industry would have nothing to do with those things,” he said pointedly.
Finally, I would like to conclude with a reminder that China has a clear “China First” policy.
We need more power! https://t.co/MHGf43avl8 pic.twitter.com/wI45QBZeYz
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) June 26, 2025
Therefore, our policy makers should take a good hard look where all the funding and activism is sourced. After all, local sourcing is promoted by Democrats! Our energy policy should be 100% American made.
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More Democrat treason. When do we stop pussyfooting around and get serious?
There are so many prosecutable Dem crimes, does DOJ have enough manpower to address all of them?
That will be up to We The People directly. We will not be able to vote our way out of this.
Precisely. Unfortunately…
“We will not be able to vote our way out of this.”
Fact.
I don’t care what viral video clips say. I’ll take Ted Cruz over Tucker ‘Qatari’ Carlson every day, all day.
I’ll take him over Trump. I am still disgusted that Trump called Cruz’s wife ugly during the 2016 primary battle. He even posted a side-by-side pic of Heidi and Melania asking the viewer to pick out the dog. Real class.
All flowers wilt, she most certainly is not attractive now.
Wuflu from China; potential interference in 2020 elections by China; funding of warmunistas by China in attacking US energy production; placement by China of spying devices in innocent looking spying devices; stealing of Western intellectual capital by Chinese in the US and Europe, etc., etc. China is a menace to the West, and somehow, someway we need to decouple from China before we find ourselves as one its provinces.
Opium War 2.0 flooding our country with Fentanyl
Sheldon Shytehouse should consider that the charges raised by Cruz didn’t appear spontaneously as a quantum fluctuation in a vacuum. Otherwise he needs to explain why it is that a claim that fits perfectly as part of a coordinated effort by China against the US should be dismissed with the wave of a hand.
Joe And The Democrats all put on their kneepads and gave Xi a Big Green New Deal.
As Rush Limbaugh used to call the environmental movement: watermelons. Green on te outside but red though and through.
Goodness! Who could have guessed?!
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My fervent hope is that the House at the very least cancels out the senate’s attempt to extend essentially indefinitely the green new deal subsidies and credits. All the climate grifters have to do is provide 5% funding to a project within 12 months of the bill’s passage (roughly by mid-2026) to remain eligible for credit and subsidies. The 5 % is nothing compared to the grift reward.
then there must be some wire laws..interstate laws..commerce laws broken and lefty needs to go to prison
I am shocked, shocked I tell you to find out that our greatest enemy it’s been so much effort trying to get us to kneecap ourselves
Any and all willing involved in Chinese efforts and funded by the CCP are traitors all and need to be identified, publicized, charged, convicted, and punished. If they aren’t citizens the need to be deported. If naturalized citizens their citizenship needs to be revoked and then deported.
Where would you deport Obama, who brought in a lot of this nonsensense masquerading as green policy? Indonesia or Kenya? Maybe we’ll find out for sure where he’s really from!
Presumably he’s a citizen so slap him with charges.
Of course there’s corruption. As an economist I expect corruption in anything that matters.
I would be much more tolerant of corrupt influence from our domestic oil companies than from the CCP, Qatar and other weird influences that have poisoned our imperfect but wonderful country.
I am not at all surprised to see evidence (mentioned in the Cruz video) of corruption in NOAA. The National Weather Service, which is under NOAA, has been fudging actual temperature data for a long time.
On winter evenings I would know the temperature had gone below freezing because our downspouts would freeze. Yet NWS was reporting 40F at our location! This is easily missed because it’s neither the daily high nor the overnight low temperature, but it goes into the averages just the same to “prove” global warming.
Oh, the NWS temperature is exact and scientific. Your downspouts were freezing because of the
“humiture”“chill factor,” so they “felt” colder than the “scientific” temperature.Leave a Comment