Worst part about this is the taxpayers bankroll this.

The Pipeline Safety Trust (PST) claims its focus is on “ensuring the integrity” of America’s oil and gas pipelines. But the Washington-based nonprofit—which has received $5 million in taxpayer funding for pipeline safety work since 2021—largely operates as a left-wing climate advocacy organization, endorsing Democratic legislation while siding against President Donald Trump on pipeline development and fighting many of his other energy priorities, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

After the Free Beacon asked the Department of Transportation about the grants it has awarded to the PST, the agency said it will investigate the group’s financials to assess whether any grant funding was used illegally and, if so, how much went to pushing this extreme agenda. The agency added that it will refer the matter to its inspector general.

“The Department has a duty to protect American taxpayer dollars,” a DOT spokesman said in a statement.

Not surprisingly, despite pitching themselves as a pipeline safety organization, PST’s board members are rabidly anti-fossil fuels with one even speaking highly of the movie How to Blow Up a Pipeline. The Free Beacon also reveals that for the past 15 years, the Department of Transportation has doled out $5.5 million to PST, approximately 3/4 of the group’s total reported revenue during that time period.

Fortunately, the Trump administration is looking into the group’s efforts saying their doing so may run afoul of the law. With PST’s seemingly flagrant legal violations they not only need to be sanctioned but, at best, shut down.

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