Key Committee Demands Docs In Biden ‘Gold Bars’ Probe
- November 5, 2025
Audrey Streb, The Daily Caller
The Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the signature Biden-era program that awarded over $20 billion in grants to Obama-connected nonprofits requested pertinent documents from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in a letter on Wednesday.
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie requested in the letter that Zeldin share complete grant files, supporting documents explaining the basis for the grant determinations and other related materials for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) awardees by Nov. 19. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman John Joyce and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman Gary Palmer also signed onto the letter.
Under the GGRF, the Biden administration awarded $20 billion to green groups loaded with former top-level Obama and Biden-era officials as well as major Democratic donors despite some career staff flagging concerns over limited oversight and potentially “excessive” executive compensation.
“In the final days of the Biden-Harris Administration, the EPA put their far-left allies ahead of the American people, giving away Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants worth nearly $30 billion to recipients who were not equipped to receive such large amounts of funding,” Guthrie, Joyce and Palmer told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a joint statement. “By requesting documentation about this grant process from the EPA, Republicans on the Committee on Energy and Commerce are continuing our work to root out waste, fraud, and abuse while being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”