House Natural Resources Committee
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
Questioning the Legitimacy of Environmental Organizations
On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Examining the Influence of Extreme Environmental Activist Groups in the Department of the Interior.”
Witnesses:- Scott Walter, President, Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C.
- Tyler O’Neil, Author, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Washington, D.C.
- Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN [Minority Witness]
The Committee has, on several occasions, raised concerns that some extreme activist nonprofit organizations—including but not limited to Code Pink, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)—have ties to foreign governments and other entities. . . . Under Secretary Haaland, DOI has cultivated intimate and potentially improper relationships with radical nonprofits that undermines acceptable standards for nonprofit-government relationships. Committee Republicans will continue to hold these groups and the Biden administration accountable through a thorough oversight process.