Lawmakers raise red flags over environmental group's ties to China

ByAlex Pappas | Fox News

Two senior Republicans are raising red flags about a major environmental group's ties to China, suggesting the organization is "at risk" of being "coerced" and might even need to register as a foreign agent. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., sent a letter Tuesday to Natural Resources Defense Council President Rhea Suh seeking “clarification” on the group’s advocacy work.

“The committee is concerned about the NRDC’s role in aiding China’s perception management efforts with respect to pollution control and its international standing on environmental issues in ways that may be detrimental to the United States,” the Republicans wrote. Specifically, they raised concerns that NRDC reports and other statements "consistently praise" China's environmental initiatives, and that their "need to maintain access to Chinese officials" has influenced their work in the U.S. -- and may require registration as a foreign agent.

Rep. Rob Bishop is pressing the NRDC for answers about its ties to China.

The lawmakers asked the NRDC for a variety of documents, including those explaining why the group is not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, considering its relationship with China.  A person or entity that works to influence the United States on behalf of another country is required to register as a foreign agent.......To Read More.....

My Take - One of the things you'll notice is - they never answer the question put to them - "why the group is not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act". They spew out the usual leftist clabber - we're the good guys, we know what's best, we have your interests at heart, all you need to do is just trust us and be quiet. Some people might view this as a bit treasonous, but one thing we know for sure - if there's evidence of them acting in the behalf of China's interests - and I've no doubt there is - it's illegal. This committee needs to start looking at all the funding of all these groups to see where it's coming from and what they're doing with that money. Once that's been exposed - I have absolutely no doubt they will find startling irregularities.

This socialist collusion with the NRDC (a virtual lava flow of dubious claims and opinions, always attended by loads of dubious "science". Paradigms and Demographics: The Alar Story ) isn't an isolated situation within the green movement.

Remember Carol Browner, the onetime Administrator of the EPA (The Food Quality Protection Act was passed during her tenure, and we now have a bed bug plague in America) and Climate Czar under the Obama administration? She was outed as being listed one of 14 members of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society (CSWS), "which is a formal organ of the Socialist International," A leftist group that calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change."

Does that sound a bit treasonous to anyone besides me?  After all, doesn't the Constitution and Congress play some role in all of this?  And what does that mean to shrink our economy, and how far? Don’t the rest of us have a say in this? Nah……socialists always know what’s best for the peasants, we just need to trust them and be quiet…..unless we learn to speak Chinese!

After she was outed her biography, unlike the other members of the commission, was removed from the Socialist International's web site.  Apparently, transparency is a one-way street - and that street runs right down the middle of Peking, or some other socialist worker's paradise.