Environmental Activists Pushed Chinese-Friendly Policies with Obama Administration
- Green group denies need to register as foreign agent
"State Department email records show that environmental activists who have denied operating as foreign agents in response to congressional inquiries
partnered with Obama administration officials to advance climate change policies that were beneficial to China and detrimental to the United States, according to energy policy analysts and attorneys who have reviewed the electronic correspondence.
The World Resources Institute, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit devoted to curtailing greenhouse gas emissions... r
elationship with China's government and the impact this relationship has had on their political activism.
...WRI had denied its relationship with the
Chinese government impacted its political activism to the point where it would be required to register under FARA.
However, the committee had obtained "communications" between WRI and "senior U.S. government officials" that suggest WRI has been operating to influence U.S. policy at behest of Chinese government officials, the letter explained.
...The email records demonstrate that
Obama State Department officials devoted considerable time, attention and pubic resources toward assisting Morgan and WRI in their efforts to assist China's climate advocacy, Chris Horner, an attorney with Government Accountability and Oversight, told the Free Beacon.
..."WRI's overtures in very high places prompted State to scramble its China team to convene with Morgan to assist WRI's project on behalf of the Chinese, and led to
WRI matchmaking Obama officials with Chinese officials eager to help make sure the climate train that they had, together, gotten to run so well, kept on chugging," Horner said.
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