Swiss Billionaire Pours Millions into Green Energy Groups Trying to Kill U.S. Oil Production
While American energy workers keep the lights on, a Swiss billionaire is quietly pouring tens of millions of dollars into groups trying to shut down oil production.
Thomas Catenacci with the Washington Free Beacon reports,
“Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss’s eponymous charity funneled tens of millions of dollars last year to left-wing nonprofits working to shut down American oil and gas production and turn out climate-concerned voters, according to the group’s tax filings first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. In total, the Wyss Foundation wired grants worth more than $40 million to two dozen organizations that buy large swaths of American land to prevent resource development, advocate for “climate justice,” and increase voter turnout among those who see global warming as the most consequential issue facing the country.”
Even after watchdog groups and congressional leaders questioned the legality of a foreign billionaire influencing U.S. policy, Wyss and his foundation show no sign of slowing down.
“Chief among Wyss’s 2024 environmental grants was one worth $16.1 million for the Virginia-based Nature Conservancy, a group Wyss has long supported and which aims to lock up 1.6 billion acres of land worldwide by 2030. “We must act now to halt catastrophic climate change,” the group states on its website. The Nature Conservancy, meanwhile, spent nearly $2.5 million lobbying for federal policies blocking oil development and boosting green energy in 2024—it has already spent $3.7 million on lobbying expenditures in 2025. At the state level, the group helped create a green bank in Alaska last year to reduce the oil-rich state’s dependence on oil and gas. In January 2025, the Nature Conservancy facilitated a settlement forcing family-owned ranches to vacate their leases on federal property in California over environmental concerns.”
Foreign billionaires should not be allowed to influence America’s energy policy. Yet Wyss continues exploiting loopholes to fund the same activist network pushing eco-left ideologies that undermine America’s security. We will keep exposing foreign-funded attacks on American workers and the affordable energy they provide.
November 21, 2025