FIRST ON FOX: An American energy leader is warning that several progressive “green” environmental groups opposing President Donald Trump’s nuclear energy plans are linked to a “web of dark money” groups with ties to former President Barack Obama and other Democrats.
Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, warned during an interview with Fox News Digital that while claiming to stand for the planet, these groups “have prioritized ideology over innovation” and are “driven by green activists and groups deeply tied to the Democratic Party.”
“You follow the money, you’ll see where it leads. It leads straight to partisan mega-donors, foreign interests, and failed climate crusaders,” Isaac said. “This isn’t about the environment. It’s about political control over America’s energy future and our energy dominance.”
Isaac’s comments follow Trump’s signing of several executive orders in May to “usher in a nuclear renaissance” by cutting red tape to accelerate advancements in nuclear technologies. In one of the orders, Trump said that “abundant energy is a vital national- and economic-security interest” and “in conjunction with domestic fossil fuel production, nuclear energy can liberate America from dependence on geopolitical rivals.”
An American energy leader is praising President Donald Trump’s nuclear energy plans, saying, “By championing nuclear power, the President is putting science, technology, and common sense ahead of the outdated, anti-energy green agenda pushed by the Left.” (Getty Images and SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Nuclear Threat Initiative, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club and several individuals have been critical of Trump’s actions as unscientific.
In late July, the Union of Concerned Scientists published a statement lambasting Trump, saying that “since the Inauguration, the administration has systematically destroyed federal scientific systems.”
UCS published a report that claimed the Trump administration is advancing a “systematic effort to suppress climate science and dismantle actions to address the climate crisis that will increase costs and suffering, particularly for disadvantaged communities, while boosting fossil fuel pollution and profits.”
A Fox News Digital review of UCS donors found that the group has received financial support from left-wing donors like the Tides Foundation, whose 2023 U.S. tax return shows it has helped bankroll anti-Israel protests on college campuses, and the Alliance for Global Justice, which in turn is a fiscal sponsor of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a group the U.S. Department of the Treasury later designated as “a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.”
UCS has also received support from the U.S. Energy Foundation, which Fox News Digital previously reported was spun off from the same foundation as the Energy Foundation China.