Ted Cruz Exposes China’s Plot To Undermine American Energy: ‘A Coordinated Assault’

WASHINGTON—During a Senate Judiciary hearing Wednesday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz exposed China’s shady efforts to infiltrate the American energy sector and leave the United States dependent on Beijing for so-called green energy.

“We are witnessing right now a systematic campaign against American energy,” Cruz said at the hearing. “There is a coordinated assault by the radical Left, backed and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, to seize control of our courts, to weaponize litigation against US energy producers all in order to undermine American energy dominance.”

Cruz in particular focused on Energy Foundation China, a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The senator cited a report from State Armor, which found that “To secure U.S. dependence, the CCP has been co-opting the progressive American climate change lobby to push a transition from fossil fuels and other critical inputs…onto ‘green’ technologies controlled by China.”

By funneling money through the foundation, the report claims, the CCP has funded many climate advocacy groups in America, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is well known for its litigious character.

“Their lawsuits are designed to destroy the American energy industry, which happens to perfectly coincide with the political objective of Senate Democrats to destroy the American energy industry,” Cruz said.

Cruz continued by exposing the Climate Judiciary Project, which claims to be impartial and uninvolved in litigation, but reportedly trains and supports judges presiding over cases of climate litigation.

Cruz pointed out that Energy Foundation China, which is run by former CCP officials, is funding litigation groups working to flood the courts with cases against American energy companies. These cases then come before judges trained by leftist-funded climate advocacy groups.

“This three-pronged strategy — foreign funding, mass litigation, and judicial indoctrination — is a full-spectrum assault on American energy independence,” Cruz said. “And while China drills and digs, we sue and shut down.”

“While China prepares for energy dominance, the American Left prepares to attack our own domestic capability.”

Ranking Member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called Cruz’s claims a “conspiracy,” arguing that the oil industry’s “dark money” schemes were more concerning.

“The hearing ignores that the fossil fuel industry has, for decades, benefited from secret funding to wage war on the American consumer by making energy more expensive and dirtier,” Whitehouse said.

Whitehouse also dismissed the claim that China was indirectly providing funds to litigious groups. Energy Foundation China, he argued, seemed focused on addressing Chinese environmental concerns, not advocating for legislative change in the United States.

Whitehouse said, “Fighting Chinese pollution in China […] is a very different thing than having a Chinese conspiracy that funds a litigation group here in the United States.”

From 2001 to 2020, the EFC has paid out nearly $1.02 billion in grants to hundreds of different organizations seeking climate reform, according to a report by Influence Watch. The Climate Judiciary Project paid an undisclosed amount toward its judicial education programs.

Scott Walter, the president of the Capital Research Center, was among those testifying about the role the CCP might play among American climate lobbyists and judges.

Asked about the motives of the CCP officials who founded Energy Foundation China, Walter said he was “skeptical that former Chinese communist officials are interested in doing anything that would harm their country.”

Maine’s Laurel Libby, Censured Over Trans Sports Policy, Gets Last Laugh: ‘I Have Never Apologized’

Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby (R) on Wednesday finally had her voice restored after state Democrats censured the Republican for a post calling out the state’s unpopular transgender sports policy.

Libby announced on X that state Democrats passed a House resolution to fully restore her voting and speaking rights, which were first stripped in February.

“VICTORY!! Democrats CAVE and give my Voice AND Vote back,” she said. “My constituent’s right to representation and my right to free speech should never have been stripped.”

Notably, Libby was told she would have to apologize to Democrats for her Facebook post drawing attention to Maine’s controversial transgender policies if she wanted her voting and speech rights back. 

“I have NEVER apologized and NEVER WILL for speaking up for girls’ sports,” Libby said. 

🚨 VICTORY!! 🚨 Democrats CAVE and give my Voice AND Vote back.

My constituent’s right to representation and my right to free speech should never have been stripped. I have NEVER apologized and NEVER WILL for speaking up for girls’ sports.

— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) June 25, 2025

Libby filed a lawsuit over the censure, and last month she scored a legal win at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled to give the Republican back her voting rights as the lawsuit plays out.

“The Democrats caved because they know that they are losing, they are losing in the court of public opinion, they are losing in the literal court, and they have to save face,” Libby said in a video post.

As highlighted by Libby, constituents in Maine — though a liberal state — side with Republicans and President Donald Trump on transgender sports issues: they want to protect female spaces and sports and keep trans-identifying males out.

“This is not over. This all began because I spoke up on behalf of Maine women and girls, who are being discriminated against,” Libby continued. “Their rights have not been assured. This is a Democrat maneuver to try to get themselves out of trouble — but they are still in trouble.”

In Maine, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is still standing by her position to allow males in girls sports. The Trump administration has sued the state’s Department of Education and frozen federal dollars over that decision.

WATCH:

LIVE from Augusta… the Democrats CAVED!! pic.twitter.com/qiXLipy37i

— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) June 25, 2025

Related: She Stood Up For Girls, Then Got A SCOTUS Win: Laurel Libby Speaks Out

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