A secretive climate activist group with significant financial backing is quietly taking on a more prominent role advocating against natural, gas-powered appliances, like stoves. [emphasis, links added]
The Gas Leaks Action Campaign — which appears to have been first established in late 2021 or early 2022 — recently launched a $1 million ad campaign warning of the dangers posed by natural gas, the largest-ever effort of its kind.
The group states on its website that natural gas harms the environment, pollutes the air inside homes, and makes stoves “constantly at risk of explosion.”
The group has also spearheaded a campaign against the American Gas Association (AGA), the nation’s leading industry group representing natural gas providers.
At a Washington, D.C. event earlier this month, Gas Leaks hosted Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., along with several environmental groups like the Sierra Club to blast the AGA’s lobbying activities.
“Instead of turning off the tap on fossil fuels, our country has been flooding the market with gas and, unless we do something, we are all going to drown,” said Markey, who is an original sponsor of the Green New Deal.
AGA President and CEO Karen Harbert said in a statement that natural gas is “fundamental to protecting America’s energy security, achieving our environmental goals, and promoting economic prosperity.”
“Despite advocacy groups willfully spreading misinformation and promoting ill-informed energy policy that would drive up prices and sacrifice environmental progress, this industry will continue to implement inclusive solutions to deliver life-essential energy and reduce emissions for our customers and communities,” she added.
Meanwhile, according to a Fox News Digital review of job search sites, Gas Leaks has posted several positions, including executive director, senior communications director, digital manager, and digital designer over the last two years with salaries ranging from $65,000 to $160,000.
Altogether, the positions indicate the group’s yearly salary and wage costs potentially exceed $465,000.
But despite Gas Leaks’ growth and increasing influence with Democratic lawmakers and similarly climate-focused organizations, the group shares very little about itself online – its founders, funding, and history are all shielded from public view.
A Reuters report last month broadly stated that Gas Leaks was “formed by climate advocacy veterans.”
A LinkedIn search revealed that those “advocacy veterans” include Caleb Heeringa, a former Sierra Club communications official who serves as Gas Leaks’ campaign director; and Jamie Henn, the founder of Fossil Free Media, co-founder of 350.org and a board member of Gas Leaks.
According to Gas Leaks’ “about page,” which appears to have been removed from the group’s site but remains archived, Gas Leaks is supported by the clean energy advocacy organization Climate Nexus, which is itself fiscally supported by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, a nonprofit that regularly funnels money from donors to progressive initiatives.
The arrangement means Gas Leaks isn’t required to file its own 990 tax ID form with the Internal Revenue Service and can, therefore, operate without publicly sharing information about its internal operations or finances.
“Senator Whitehouse conveniently abandons his soapbox railing against dark money when it’s time for him to cozy up to a dark money group that is pushing his preferred radical climate agenda,” said Caitlin Sutherland, Executive Director of Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit government watchdog group.
Sutherland noted the contrast between both Whitehouse’s relationship with Gas Leaks and his high-profile push against dark money in politics.
“This latest pop-up green group is pedaling misinformation in a shadowy attempt to ban gas stoves.”
A Fox News Digital analysis of grants identified a single Gas Leaks donor: the California-based Heising-Simons Foundation, which states on its website that it seeks to advance “sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking science research, enhance the education of our youngest learners and support human rights for all people.”
In 2022 and 2023, the Heising-Simons Foundation wired two $150,000 grants to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, earmarking both for the Gas Leaks Action Campaign.
The Heising-Simons Foundation has reportedly given more than $3.3 million in recent years to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a climate think tank that was involved in the aggressive push last year targeting gas stoves via regulation.
The Heising-Simons Foundation was also cofounded in 2007 by Mark Heising, who remains its vice chair and is involved financially in several green energy companies.
“The only thing green about today’s environmental movement is the billions in cash that flow freely between lefty billionaires, their operatives in the green movement, and the politicians who do their bidding,” said Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.
“Their campaign to ban natural gas stoves is yet another example of the nexus between self-dealing wealthy elites like Mark Heising, green pressure groups like the Rocky Mountain Institute, and the Democratic Party machine.”
While environmentalists have for years sought to crack down on natural gas and gas appliances over their climate impacts, the push came to a head early last year when Richard Trumka Jr., a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, said banning gas stoves was “on the table.”
The Department of Energy then issued regulations targeting gas stoves shortly thereafter.
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I sent the Gas Leaks Action Campaign my standard email showing that the CAGW hypothesis has been disproved.
It starts like this:
Greetings.
If you’re an advocate of hydrogen as a fuel, then CH4 should be the closest molecule to that ideal… it is literally 4 hydrogen atoms and one carbon atom. Most hydrogen comes from CH4 steam reformation.
Hydrogen is dangerous to handle (wide explosivity index, and it leaks through hermetic metal containment, and it embrittles that metal leading to catastrophic failure), whereas CH4 is much safer to handle (not such a wide explosivity index, it doesn’t leak through hermetic metal containment, it doesn’t embrittle metal).
Thus, it must be that single carbon atom that you dislike, yes? And you dislike it because you believe that CO2 will cause deleterious climate effects, yes?
Well, good news, then!
The CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, due to CO2) hypothesis has been disproved… it does not reflect reality. It’s been disproved via multiple avenues in the attached paper.
You can either read the text below, or follow this link:
https://www.patriotaction.us/showthread.php?tid=2711
The takeaways:
1) The climatologists have conflated their purported “greenhouse effect” with the Kelvin-Helmholtz Gravitational Auto-Compression Effect (aka the lapse rate).
2) The climatologists claim the causative agent for their purported “greenhouse effect” to be “backradiation”.
3) The Kelvin-Helmholtz Gravitational Auto-Compression Effect’s causative agent is, of course, gravity.
4) “Backradiation” is physically impossible because energy cannot spontaneously flow up an energy density gradient.
5) The climatologists misuse the Stefan-Boltzmann (S-B) equation, using the idealized blackbody form of the equation upon graybody objects, which manufactures out of thin air their purported “backradiation”. It is only a mathematical artifact due to that aforementioned misuse of the S-B equation. It does not and cannot actually exist. Its existence would imply rampant violations of the fundamental physical laws.
6) Polyatomic molecules are net atmospheric radiative coolants, not “global warming” gases.
Nothing quite like using scientific reality to dishearten the climate loons. LOL
It quite possible that these activists haven’t heard of the invention of the stove hood fan that can do miraculous things like take cooking odours along with any products of burning natural gas out to roof top vents. In our household, we run mostly everything from natural gas; cooking range, barbecue, furnace, hot water heater and a fireplace. We also have a wood stove in our basement. In Canada the vast majority of homes have a natural gas line at the front or back of their property and it would be relatively cheap if it weren’t for our radical left wing government’s carbon tax. Every month the Carbon tax is more than the actual gas charge. There are other charges like basic charge, delivery, storage and transportation, a municipal fee, etc but the carbon tax is always more than just the gas itself. Example my last bill, just the natural gas was $17.62 but the carbon tax was 25.58. Our prime minister , Justin Trudeau and our provincial premier David Eby are from similar far left political parties and both are making it difficult and costly to live in this country. Both are puppets, stooges for WEF, UN , WHO and the globalists who plan to lower our standard of living by making it more expensive to live, so we will not be able to travel, drive a car ,have an RV or take a winter holiday to the southern US or Mexico. Canadians are finally catching on and both of these dictators will be ousted the next election… good riddance.
The Gas Leaks Action Campaign just another group of Useful Idiots like Just Stop Oil, The Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement
Wow! This is normal for 2024, publish absolute lies, use biden-like tactics to hide the money trail and get teachers union indoctrinators to tell children there’s a life threatening stove in the kitchen, just waiting to explode.
It’d be a cartoon if the greenies like that senator guy didn’t lie to give them credibility. I hope Americans see the scam and keep on cooking and heating their homes with the gas stoves they want to own.