Billionaire funding of climate activism melting! LA Times: ‘Jeff Bezos’ $10-billion climate pledge is falling dangerously behind’ – Still need to spend more than $7 billion to reach goal – Plus: Meta ‘winding down its climate portfolio’ & Bill Gates has trimmed staff at his climate org
There’s been tumult across the relatively small climate philanthropy sector, with some big donors pulling back. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, run by Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is winding down its climate portfolio, according to a spokesperson for the organization.
Renowned climate investor and donor Bill Gates has trimmed staff at Breakthrough Energy, his climate organization, while pulling back on advocacy work and halting some investments.
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Randall Kempner, executive director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition. “It is certainly a less hospitable environment for climate philanthropy today than it was prior to Trump’s election,” he said.
POLITICO: ‘Climate hushing’ – ‘The sound of (climate) silence’ – ‘As Trump unravels U.S. climate policy, Dems & enviro groups have grown strangely quiet’ – Dems ‘may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2026/05/26/the-sound-of-climate-silence-00936026 BY ARIANNA SKIBELL Excerpt: Call it the great “climate hushing.” At least, that’s how Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change
Climate Scam Officially DEAD! New York Times SHOCK OPED: ‘Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues’ – ‘Marks the end of an era’ – Admits ‘American voters largely do not see climate as a top priority’
NYT OPED by a progressive socialist, Matthew T. Huber, author of “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.”
‘There is little reason for politicians like them to focus on the issue anymore’ – Go silent on climate ‘to regain credibility with working people’ – For ‘blue-collar voters, energy is an ‘end of the month’ issue’
Democrats need to ‘stop elevating a litany of single-issue policies’
‘When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all.’
‘This shift among progressive Democrats on the campaign trail in many ways marks the end of an era’
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Climate Depot’s Marc Morano responds: “You know the climate scam is officially over in polite society when a socialist academic declares on the pages of the New York Times that progressive Democratic candidates SHOULD GO SILENT on the issue formerly known as the greatest threat to humanity! Thank you, President Trump!”
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Morano’s keynote climate speech thanks — Dr. Fauci! It was COVID overreach that helped kill the climate scam! Fauci ruined appeal to authority/experts – April 13, 2026
NYT: How Lee Zeldin Shifted the Message of the EPA – He emphasizes words like ‘energy dominance…red tape’ & downplays words like ‘global warming’ – Has ‘overseen a systematic unraveling of climate change protections’
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/12/climate/lee-zeldin-epa-mission-language.html If language is a window into policy priorities, Mr. Zeldin’s words speak loudly. More than any administrator since 1994, Mr. Zelin talks about fossil
UK Guardian: Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’ – Trump’s EPA chief’s presence ‘shows how much influence climate deniers now have’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/dc-conference-climate-deniers-trump-epa-chief By Dharna Noor in Washington DC Excerpt: At a conference hosted by the prominent science-denying thinktank the Heartland Institute last week, a crowd of
EPA Chief Zeldin tells climate skeptics to ‘celebrate vindication’ after repeal of baseline climate rule
https://apnews.com/article/zeldin-epa-heartland-climate-change-endangerment-e5b831bb200da83adbaa60a8d50f27f5 (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis
