{"id":1773079,"date":"2022-12-13T05:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773079"},"modified":"2022-12-13T05:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:04:43","slug":"former-energy-sec-calls-for-investigations-into-doe-grant-to-china-based-battery-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-energy-sec-calls-for-investigations-into-doe-grant-to-china-based-battery-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Energy Sec Calls for Investigations Into DOE Grant to China-Based Battery Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-energy-sec-calls-for-investigations-into-doe-grant-to-china-based-battery-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773079&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">In bid to boost U.S. green energy, DOE gave $200 million to Chinese company under scrutiny from U.S. financial regulators<\/p>\n<p>    Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 December 13, 2022 4:57 am  <\/p>\n<p>Former energy secretary Rick Perry said his Democratic successor, Jennifer Granholm, should face congressional investigations over the $200 million her department sent to a China-based battery company, predicting that those investigations would lead to calls for her resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Perry\u2019s comments come as U.S. Senate and House investigators have launched inquiries into the DOE grant to Microvast Holdings to build a battery separator facility in Tennessee, using federal funds that were intended to counter China\u2019s dominance over the global lithium-ion battery supply chain. Microvast, a U.S. holding company, operates primarily from China and is under scrutiny from American financial regulators, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/doe-touts-200m-grant-to-lithium-battery-company-as-boon-to-american-made-clean-energy-the-company-operates-primarily-from-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is just unacceptable behavior for the Department of Energy, the secretary of energy to be sending money to companies like this,&#8221; said Perry, who served as secretary of energy under the Trump administration until 2019, during an interview with Fox News <em>Sunday Morning Futures<\/em>. &#8220;You\u2019re gonna have the House investigating this. You\u2019re gonna have the Senate investigating this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not for me to call for somebody\u2019s resignation. But I\u2019m suggesting that these leaders in Congress, after they dig into this, it\u2019s not gonna take them long to get to the real facts, that they will start calling for the resignation of the secretary of energy,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s dash to implement its ambitious green energy agenda\u2014pushed by anti-fossil-fuel hardliners such as climate czar John Kerry\u2014has forced it to work with a global green industry dominated by China, where companies often have links to the adversarial Chinese Communist Party government, the state security apparatus, or widespread labor abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE has defended the grant, telling the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that Microvast\u2019s proposed facility in Tennessee &#8220;will use U.S. sourced raw materials in the proposed facility and equipment manufactured within the U.S. or by U.S. allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The department told Fox News on Sunday that the funding means that Microvast &#8220;no longer needs to look to China to establish its manufacturing facilities. The president\u2019s historic agenda is helping to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the DOE describes Microvast as a &#8220;majority U.S.-owned company, traded on NASDAQ&#8221; and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former energy secretary Rick Perry said his Democratic successor, Jennifer Granholm, should face congressional investigations over the $200 million her department sent to a China-based battery company, predicting that those investigations would lead to calls for her resignation.<br \/>\nThe post Former Energy Sec Calls for Investigations Into DOE Grant to China-Based Battery Company appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":692481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6737,4092,3755,8329,5425,8328,4486,5581,8327],"class_list":["post-1773079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-battery","tag-beacon","tag-calls","tag-china-based","tag-company","tag-doe","tag-energy","tag-grant","tag-investigations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}