RFK Jr.'s Dirty Climate Agenda

RFK Jr. is an environmental fraud who embraces debunked anti-science conspiracy theories, surrounds himself with climate change deniers, lambasts clean energy projects, and endorses fossil fuels — just like Donald Trump. He supports the dangerous Project 2025 agenda, which will sabotage the EPA, kill clean energy, and increase drilling. RFK Jr. was pushed out of Riverkeeper and the NRDC for his anti-science and pro-Trump views.

• RFK Jr. has been called “a dangerous conspiracy theorist and a science denier” by dozens of prominent environmentalists.
• RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in climate change and says it’s a pretext for totalitarianism.
• RFK Jr. opposes government regulation to reduce emissions and has criticized clean energy subsidies.
• RFK Jr. supports drilling for oil and tapping natural gas reserves — and personally profits from oil and gas leases.
• RFK Jr.’s largest donors include investors in the oil, gas, and mining industries.
• RFK Jr.’s campaign staff includes climate change deniers. His communications director has called global warming “an enslavement system.”
• RFK Jr. was pushed out of environmental groups for his anti-science views and support of Donald Trump. 

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• Dozens of RFK Jr.’s former colleagues in the environmental movement signed a letter calling him “a dangerous conspiracy theorist and a science denier.” They said, “We can’t, in good conscience, let him continue co-opting the credibility and successes of our movement for his own personal benefit.”
• RFK Jr. has called climate change a manufactured problem meant to “clamp down totalitarian controls.”
• RFK Jr. has criticized clean energy subsidies, opposed the Inflation Reduction Act, opposes government regulations to reduce carbon emissions, and has no meaningful policy proposals to curb global warming.
• RFK Jr. has said “we have to drill for oil,” called natural gas “cheap energy that puts us at a global competitive advantage.”
• RFK Jr. has earned tens of thousands of dollars from oil and gas drilling.
• RFK Jr.’s largest donors include major polluters and fossil fuel companies:
  • Robert Bishop of Impala Asset Management, an investor in environmentally damaging sectors like oil, gas, coal, and Brazilian copper mining, gave Kennedy $275,000.
  • BitNile Metaverse, a Texas-based oil and gas holding company, gave Kennedy $175,000.
• RFK Jr.’s campaign staff includes climate change deniers:
  • Del Bigtree, his communications director, “voices full-throated conspiracy theories denying the reality of human-caused climate change.” He said “global warming is … an enslavement system” and called it a “phenomena that is being used to create hysteria.”
  • Douglas Dechert, who hosted a press dinner for RFK Jr. and introduced him to funders, has repeatedly referred to the “climate hoax scam”; he says “this myth that’s constantly promoted to the low-information masses by the corporatist/government media is designed to make them afraid enough to surrender their civil rights and ultimately, to take their very lives.” 
  • Charles Eisenstein, a New Age personality who has been paid at least $44,000 to advise RFK Jr., has written that he is “skeptical of certain aspects” of climate change and that “reasonable people can doubt” global warming, He also compared the government’s COVID-19 response to “antisemitic fascism.”
• RFK Jr. has fought against carbon-free energy sources, including an offshore wind farm off the coast of his family’s Cape Cod estate. His opposition was widely criticized by the environmental community. Other opponents included the Koch brothers and the Mellon family. Timothy Mellon is now one of his largest donors.
• RFK Jr. was pushed out of Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council for his anti-science views and support of Donald Trump.