Biden Rule Forces US Companies To Confess Climate Sins To Foreign Organization

Under a new Biden administration rule, private companies seeking government contracts must reveal their “greenhouse gas” emissions, and a plan to eliminate them, to a foreign organization run by a secretive Democrat Party donor.

U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas has sent a letter to Biden's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, regarding concerns the new rule, which demands disclosure to a group with several disturbing ties and is accused of manipulating climate data itself.

The Committee “first raised concerns in March with a proposed rule by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR) that would require government contractors to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and develop emission reduction targets to be validated and approved by the international non-governmental organization known as the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi),” it reveals in a new statement.

But while the “SBTi” demands transparency from American companies, the group is secretive about its foreign affiliations and ties to a fund that bankrolls Democrat causes with unreported funds.

“As the Committee pointed out in March, SBTi has come under scrutiny for potential conflicts of interest, a lack of transparency, and manipulation of emissions metrics,” the Committee reports.

The Committee reports its “letter highlights new information that has recently been brought to light about SBTi, which was not officially incorporated as a business until June 26, 2023, nearly eight years after its launch and many months after the publication of the proposed rule.”

“While SBTi filed its official incorporation in the United Kingdom, it appears that it is currently not registered in the United States,” the letter notes. 

“SBTi is funded and managed by We Mean Business, an organization closely linked to the New Venture Fund, a known Democratic ‘dark money' group that does not disclose its donors,” they reveal.

“SBTi's connection to groups that routinely fund Democratic causes and campaigns exacerbates concerns that they were arbitrarily selected to perform this task and that this Administration is potentially directing millions of dollars in business revenue to an organization that is closely tied to its donors,” the letter continues.

“Congress needs to know immediately if this Administration has been attempting to improperly use the rule-making process to funnel money to anonymous partisan corporate entities,” they add. The Committee also notes:

The group is itself accused of manipulating data.

“Adding to these alarming concerns, the letter also notes one of SBTi's founders – allegedly removed from the company's technology advisory committee after raising concerns regarding the company's scientific methodology – recently said that under the Administration's proposed rule, SBTi would be ‘operating in a quasi-regulator stance…and yet it doesn't have the kind of checks and balances or transparency for such an organization,'” the Committee notes.

Lucas also raised security concerns about Biden's decision to put government functions in the hands of a foreign group.

“From a scientific and national security perspective, the unconstitutional outsourcing of Congressional authority to SBTi limits the federal government from actively reviewing the processes and methodologies to ensure sound scientific practices are being followed. Additionally, the federal government would be inhibited from ensuring foreign actors are not influencing the group to harm the U.S. or our allies. Without a clear oversight process, the United States will have no way of knowing whether or not SBTi's emissions metrics are being manipulated to disfavor American companies, making it harder for us to acquire goods and materials that are critical to our national security,” he writes.

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