{"id":1978025,"date":"2023-07-19T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-over-us-military-contracts\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T02:03:20","slug":"biden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-over-us-military-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-over-us-military-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s climate plan prioritizes foreign group&#8217;s &#8216;dark money&#8217; over US military contracts."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-over-us-military-contracts%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=1978025&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--><h2>Bureaucratic Jargon Raises\u2064 Concerns Over Outside \u200cGroup&#8217;s \u2062Influence on Defense\u2062 Contractors<\/h2>\n<p>Hidden within a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-states-oppose-bidens-proposed-ban-on-traveling-natural-gas-by-train\/\" title=\"25 States Oppose Biden\u2019s Proposed Ban on Traveling Natural Gas by Train\">proposed federal rule<\/a> is a piece of bureaucratic \u2062jargon that\u2064 is\u200b causing alarm. It suggests that an external\u2062 organization with questionable \u2064connections could have\u2062 a significant\u200d impact\u200d on \u200bAmerica&#8217;s defense\u2062 contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 rule, identified as FAR-2021-15,\u200c is currently\u200d in \u2063the drafting\u200b process. A report, which will\u200d take\u2062 into account the numerous comments received, is \u2063due \u2063on July\u200d 26.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063purpose \u200dof\u2064 the \u2063rule, as stated\u2064 on a \u200cfederal procurement website, \u200cis to &#8220;require major\u2062 Federal\u2064 suppliers\u2064 to publicly disclose greenhouse \u200dgas emissions and climate-related financial \u2062risk and to \u2064set \u2062science-based reduction targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The draft\u2064 version of the rule specifies that large defense contractors\u200c must develop\u200d &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-commerce-republicans-call-on-nasa-to-abandon-biden-admins-costly-climate-change-rule\/\" title=\"Senate Commerce Republicans Call on NASA to Abandon Biden Admin\u2019s Costly Climate Change Rule\">science-based targets<\/a>&#8221; for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californias-high-speed-rail-is-a-boondoggle-with-inflated-jobs-numbers-regional-paper-says\/\" title=\"California\u2019s High-Speed Rail Is A Boondoggle With Inflated Jobs Numbers, Regional Paper Says\">reducing greenhouse gases<\/a>, with \u2063these targets \u200cbeing \u200bvalidated by SBTi (Science \u2064Based\u200d Targets initiative).<\/p>\n<p>SBTi is \u200ba partnership\u2063 between CDP, the United\u2064 Nations Global \u200cCompact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the\u2064 World Wide Fund\u200c for Nature\u2063 (WWF).<\/p>\n<p>A less favorable report from the Washington \u2064Free \u2064Beacon \u200dclaims \u2064that SBTi \u200bis funded by the Democratic Party&#8217;s\u2063 main dark\u200c money network. The\u200d report also alleges that the We\u200d Mean Business\u200b Coalition, \u2063listed as a\u200c partner on SBTi&#8217;s website, is\u2064 a front group for a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-over-us-military-contracts\/\" title=\"Biden's climate plan prioritizes foreign group's 'dark money' over US military contracts.\">left-leaning\u200b dark\u200b money organization called<\/a> the \u2062New Venture\u200d Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from concerns about the organization&#8217;s financial\u200c activities, having it involved in a federal procurement system is unsettling for many. \u2064Former SBTi board member \u2063Bill Baue, a sustainability expert,\u200c expressed concerns about \u200dthe lack of checks and balances and \u200dtransparency within \u200bthe organization.<\/p>\n<p>BP America\u2064 filed\u200c a comment against\u2064 the rule, stating\u200b that appointing a third-party arbiter to determine companies&#8217; \u200deligibility as \u2063major contractors could be\u200c damaging and \u2064counterproductive \u200dto\u2063 the proposal&#8217;s\u2064 decarbonization goals.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 U.S. \u200cChamber of \u200dCommerce also criticized the\u200c plan, \u2063highlighting \u200cthat\u2062 another outside\u200b group, CDP, would be\u200b reviewing company data and plans \u2064and receiving payment in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Fisher, a \u2064senior energy research \u200cfellow at the Heritage Foundation, voiced \u2063his opposition to \u200dthe \u2063concept, emphasizing that allowing \u200bunelected bureaucrats and \u2062a climate \u200dactivist \u2064group \u200dheadquartered \u2063in London \u200bto\u2063 oversee\u200c long-term planning for national \u2064defense \u200ccontractors is concerning.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-climate-plan-gives-dark-money-foreign-group-approval-us-military-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in a federal rule, bureaucratic jargon raises concerns that a group with questionable ties may influence decisions affecting US defense contractors. 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