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One group, the Coalition for Green Capital, received a staggering $5 billion from the fund. The group’s board includes several individuals with deep ties to both the Biden White House and Barack Obama’s political machine.
Among them is David Hayes, who served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy until 2022. He conveniently left the administration and jumped straight onto the Coalition’s board—right before the group landed its multi-billion-dollar grant.
Another key figure is Donnel Baird, a former Obama campaign worker and SEIU operative, who joined the group in 2022. He also collaborated with the Obama administration on green energy initiatives, despite a checkered record of failed projects.
Baird’s past is raising serious questions. He founded BlocPower in 2014, a company that made bold promises to decarbonize cities by replacing traditional gas systems with electric alternatives. But its most high-profile project—partnering with Ithaca, New York—ended in disaster.
In 2021, BlocPower struck a deal to electrify more than 6,000 buildings in the college town. “There’s a lot of expensive engineering and financial and workforce development costs,” Baird told Ithaca’s City Council. “Our job is to remove all of that friction.”
Ithaca took the bait and became the first city in America to commit to full building electrification by 2030. Baird bragged about the deal, saying, “The hardest part is finding the city with the courage to make the commitment.”
But when it came time to deliver, BlocPower fizzled. They only managed to electrify 10 buildings before quietly pulling out of the project and disappearing from the scene.
Ithaca residents were left stunned—not only by the company’s failure, but by the outrageous prices it proposed. One resident, Dan Antonioli, was quoted $135,000 for a 15-year lease on a heat pump. Local contractors were charging a fifth of that price. “I was not at all clear on how they were going to make this affordable,” Antonioli told WSKG. “Meaning, how are they going to bring the price down?”
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Yet even with this dismal track record, BlocPower still won praise from top Democrats. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris once called the company an “emerging leader” in green energy.
In 2024, Baird quietly stepped away from BlocPower as criticism mounted and the Ithaca project lay in ruins.
This scandal isn’t just about one failed company—it shines a light on the entire rotten foundation of Biden’s green energy agenda. Billions in taxpayer funds are being funneled to politically connected activists, many of whom have direct ties to Obama and Biden’s inner circles.
While the media looks the other way, Americans are left footing the bill for broken promises and green energy boondoggles that never deliver. The only thing being recycled here is taxpayer money—and it’s all being handed to Democrat elites.
