How much of the climate cult is really just about money?

“Get the money out as fast as possible before they [the Trump administration] come in. … It’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” former EPA advisor Brent Efron was caught saying in an undercover video captured by Project Veritas.

That statement, which Efron’s lawyer quickly dismissed as him simply expressing his “personal views,” adding that his client “had nothing to do with" how EPA funding was administered, is nonetheless proving to be accurate.

At least $20 billion of what amounts to an EPA slush fund went to a number of suspect nonprofit organizations that appear to have been created simply for the purpose of receiving the funding.

For example, in 2023, numerous nonprofit groups were formed in and around Washington, DC, each receiving massive amounts of EPA funding, yet with seemingly no work or programs to justify the money dump.

One of these is the Climate United Fund, which was incorporated in Delaware in November 2023 and received $7 billion in EPA cash five months later. At the time, the group touted the funding as a "historic investment” in a group whose work supposedly “delivers benefits like cleaner air … and increased energy security.”

What “work” is that, exactly? The organization highlights a couple of “pre-development loans” to solar projects in three states, but their total funding is a drop in the bucket compared to the $7 billion they’ve received.

Another outfit, the Justice Climate Fund, was also set up in 2023 in DC. The group is so new that it has yet to submit a tax filing with the IRS. Yet the nonprofit outfit received $940 million from the EPA to “drive transformative investments, focused on reducing pollution," it claims.

Where is the EPA getting all this cash to throw around?

Thanks to the erroneously named Inflation Reduction Act, the EPA received a mind-boggling $375 billion.

Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, whom Biden tapped for the role in 2022, oversaw this massive taxpayer-funded cash flow.

"Ethically speaking, it’s concerning,” stated Laurie Styron, CEO of the watchdog group Charity Watch. “What was the purpose of creating middlemen entities when there are so many established groups in the climate space with good track records? What was the value-added [by] doing it this way, especially with such large sums of taxpayer funds?”

Good question. Another of these “middleman” groups is Power Forward Communities Inc., which, according to its 2023 tax filing, recorded just $100 in revenue. Yet, for some reason, the EPA saw fit to give this outfit $2 billion. Interestingly, this group is one of a five-charity coalition that, in 2023, tapped former Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as its corporate counsel.

“The Biden EPA ‘gold bar’ scheme was designed to limit government oversight while doling out funds to far-left organizations pushing DEI and Environmental Justice,” noted EPA chief Lee Zeldin. “Of the eight pass-through entities that received funding from the pot of $20 billion in tax dollars, various recipients have shown very little qualification to handle a single dollar, let alone several billions of dollars.” He added, “I have zero tolerance for waste and abuse at the EPA.”

Thankfully, the FBI and the Department of Justice have opened investigations into these grants, and banks have frozen the funds.

Hopefully, the EPA will be able to recover all these funds, cutting off taxpayer dollars from going to dubious environmentalist groups.