Exclusive: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met personally with the leaders of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). call for a ban on gas stoves.
Granholm met with then-RMI CEO Jules Cortenhorst in June 2021, according to her internal calendar obtained by the Americans for Public Trust (APT), a government watchdog. Kortenhorst is a well-known global climate activist who founded the Energy Transitions Commission, of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Transitioning to Net Zero.
The calendar did not include an agenda for the meeting, which was conducted via Zoom and lasted about an hour. The Department of Energy (DOE) and he reached out to RMI for comment but did not receive a response.
“Despite calling the story of the Biden administration banning gas stoves ‘ridiculous’ and ‘untrue,’ Granholm’s calendar tells a different story,” said an APT executive. Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital. “It turns out she consulted a black-market group promoting a ban on gas stoves.”
Suffice it to say that ‘ridiculous’ and ‘untrue’ proposals don’t usually involve a meeting with the Secretary of Energy, and where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” Sutherland added. People must also demand that Granholm and green energy extremists stay out of the kitchen.”
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tells reporters at the White House on Nov. 23, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
RMI, a Colorado-based non-profit organization working to accelerate the global transition to green energy, particularly through the electrification of the entire economy, has recently reviewed the public health impacts brought about by the use of gas stoves. came to prominence after funding a study that highlighted the dangers of The study was cited in a Bloomberg article in early January that included comments from members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who told the outlet that a ban on gas stoves was “under consideration.”
Granholm also backed the study, authored by RMI researchers Thaler Gruenwald and Brady Shields, in a tweet in which she pleaded with Americans to switch to electric stoves.
Democratic-led cities are already pushing bans on gas stoves that affect millions
“We can and must fix this,” Granholm tweeted Jan. 4 in response to a post from Seal containing the findings. rice field [President Biden’s] The Inflation Reduction Act will make electric and induction cookers more accessible to Americans and keep pollution out of our homes. Cook food faster. Help families save money. ”
After widespread criticism, the White House ultimately opposed the gas stove ban, saying it would not support such measures.Granholm called the idea a “ridiculous” ban.
Earlier this month, however, the DOE rekindled the debate. Strict efficiency regulation proposal It will limit the purchase of gas stoves by consumers in the future. Overall, the Biden administration has taken more than her 110 actions against similar energy efficiency standards throughout his 2022.
A stove that uses natural gas as fuel is drawn. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“One of the big parts of this, of course, is making sure we have electrification and efficiency within the home environment,” Granholm said at the White House Electrification Summit in December. , and it’s time to work together to reach the clean energy future we all care about.”
In addition, RMI is working with the Chinese government to explore a shift away from conventional fossil fuels, and the group’s only office outside the United States is in the Chinese capital, Beijing. RMI is a member of the China Clean Transportation Partnership, a green group with close ties to the Chinese government.
The Biden administration, which influences the Green Group, has deep ties to the Chinese government
In 2013, RMI collaborated with the National Development and Reform Commission, a Chinese government agency, to develop a roadmap for “Revolution in China’s Energy Consumption and Production to 2050”. The report mainly showed how the Chinese economy could adopt new clean energy technologies to replace oil and gas infrastructure.
President Biden is pictured with former White House Chief of Staff Ron Crane and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on June 30, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
RMI’s director, Wei Ding, was formerly chairman of China International Capital Corporation, a bank partially owned by the Chinese government.
The Washington Free Beacon was the first to report on RMI’s ties to the Chinese government.
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RMI has also received millions of dollars in DOE funding, and its staff members participate in agency events on green transportation and sustainability.
DOE awarded RMI a $4.4 million grant in March 2022 to demonstrate an “integrated retrofit package of envelope panels, heat pump pods, and innovative funding” at a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. .
