GOP leaders open joint probe into global energy group influencing net-zero policies in US [Video]

FIRST ON FOX: Republican leaders in the Senate and House have opened a joint probe into the International Energy Agency (IEA), a powerful group with influence on major global decarbonization policies.

In a letter late Wednesday to IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said the Paris-based group has strayed in recent years from its core mission of “promoting energy security.” They warned that IEA’s actions threaten to harm the group’s reputation for impartiality.

“We would argue that in recent years the IEA has been undermining energy security by discouraging sufficient investment in energy supplies,” Barrasso and McMorris Rodgers wrote in the letter. “Moreover, its energy modeling no longer provides policymakers with balanced assessments of energy and climate proposals. Instead, it has become an ‘energy transition’ cheerleader.”

“Until recently, the IEA has served as …