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Cruz Alleges Alliance Between China, U.S. Climate Groups Undermines American Energy


Senators clash over China’s ties with U.S. energy groups.

WASHINGTON, June 25, 2025 – At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing today, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that U.S. energy production is under attack by an illicit alliance between the Chinese Communist Party and progressive climate advocacy groups, lawyers, and nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Cruz pointed out that the organization’s CEO and President Ji Zou previously served as a member of China's official climate negotiation team during the 2015 Paris Agreement. “The hearing ignores that the fossil fuel industry has for decades benefited from secret funding to wage war on the American consumer by making energy more expensive and dirtier, higher utility bills worse pollution,” Whitehouse said.

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