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As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the sake of health, safety, and equity, we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDC-approved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law, new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination, those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccine-related data confidentially, in keeping with local, state, and federal laws.
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Controversies
TIES TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Between January 2021 to September 2022, former NRDC president Gina McCarthy served as the White House Climate Czar under the Biden Administration. According to Fox News Digital, visitor logs show that the current NRDC president Manish Bapna has visited the White House at least twice as of September 2022. In addition, nonprofit watchdog organization Protect the Public’s Trust shared that the organization, “regularly communicates with Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s office.” 36
CONNECTIONS TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PART (CCP)
On the organization’s website, the NRDC discusses how it has worked with, “Chinese and international partners” to advocate for policies within China to “fortify” its own, “environmental regulations.” 37 The Chinese language version of the NRDC’s website further states that the organization’s office in Beijing is, “registered under the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and supervised by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China.” 38 The NRDC’s managing director of its international program, Amanda Maxwell, released a statement to Fox News Digital claiming, ”
“We advise our sponsor, the Chinese National Forestry and Grassland Administration, of our work plan for in-country activities involving any Chinese entity, government or private…we provide the agency with an annual report assessing the outcome of our work, which centers on providing independent analysis and policy recommendations to the government of China…In China, as elsewhere, the NRDC operates in accordance with the law.” 39
In addition to work within the country, several members of staff within the NRDC’s Beijing office have either previously worked within the CCP or left the NRDC for a government position. For example, the director of NRDC’s China program, Jieqing Zhang, previously served as the deputy director-general of China’s International Cooperation Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. Another example is the NRDC’s strategic advisor for its Beijing office, JingJing Qian, whom previously served in a position within China’s Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition, local project manager for the NRDC’s climate and energy project in Beijing, Hui Huang, previously worked for state-owned electric company the China Datang Corporation. 40 The NRDC has also released several blog posts praising China for, “doing a lot to address its problems at home and to help fight climate change,” 41
During an interview with Fox News Digital in September 2022, H. Sterling Burnett, director of think tank Heartland Institute’s Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, commented on the NRDC’s lack of criticism of the CCP government. “First off, they know that China can just kick them out. Secondly, it’s hard to bite the hand that feeds you. If you’re being paid not to criticize somebody, then you don’t need to criticize them.”42 In addition, a 2018 letter sent by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and former Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) to NRDC leadership stated, “The NRDC’s relationship with China has many of the criteria identified by U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement as putting an entity at risk of being influenced or coerced by foreign interests.”
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/natural-resources-defense-council-nrdc/#easy-footnote-bottom-43-33
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