President Joe Biden’s climate czar Ali Zaidi, who is also an assistant to Biden, met privately with eco-groups that have been pushing for gas stove bans.
Fox News, who first reported the story, reports that “Zaidi met Jules Kortenhorst, RMI’s CEO at the time; John Coequyt, RMI’s government affairs director; and Sarah Ladislaw, Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) former managing director and U.S. program leader, on March 17, 2022, in the West Wing of the White House.” This is according to visitor logs.
“This meeting was about adding to President Biden’s historic record of bringing more manufacturing jobs back to America and lowering energy costs, not a debunked conspiracy theory,” White House spokesperson Abdullah Hasan told Fox News Digital. “While the cynics try to serve up a story about Zaidi without sizzle or steak, he is working overtime to deliver substance — good jobs, cost savings, and a stronger American energy sector than ever before.”
Topics discussed during the meeting were not revealed in the visitor’s logs.
The Biden Administration has been cozying up to RMI, an eco-radicalise acceleration group that seeks to help implement green policies.
“The White House visitor logs also showed that Kortenhorst and Coequyt were also in attendance at the White House ceremony celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. RMI’s Twitter account thanked Biden for inviting members of the RMI public policy team to the White House for the event,” Fox News writes.
The group also raised $13,132 for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, according to election filings.
One former RMI official, Elizabeth Hartman, joined the Department of Energy in 2022, having previously worked in roles including chief of staff and manager of the group’s electricity practice.
“To all of our friends in the climate movement who never gave up, thank you, thank you, thank you!”- @SenSchumer on the #InflationReductionAct passing.
Thank you @POTUS for inviting @RMIPolicy to The @WhiteHouse to celebrate this historic milestone. 👏 pic.twitter.com/lOI3s8KMWM
— RMI (@RockyMtnInst) September 13, 2022
The group was behind a study that supposedly highlighted health dangers that are posed by gas stove usage.
RMI would later admit that the report does not demonstrate a relationship between gas stoves and asthma.
