The former Obama campaigner, currently featured on the environmental group’s board, has chosen to receive billions from the Biden administration.
Donnel Baird – Who? I worked For the Obama Campaign in 2012 on behalf of the United Nations of Service Employees before establishing Blocpower, a building decarbonization company – Participation board Of the December 2022 Green Capital Coalition (CGC), the group selected by the Biden EPA in April 2024 received approximately $5 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). Block Power made headlines in 2021 when it partnered with Ithaca in New York to decarbonise 6,000 buildings in Liberal City, but the company completed just a handful of projects in town before it effectively “disappears” from the scene. According to Go to local outlet WSKG.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris Recognised Blosspower as the “emerging leader” of Green Tech Space in 2023, and Baird’s biography page on CGC’s website Promotion Block Power is a “startup that sells, finances and installs solar and energy-efficient technologies to support worship houses, nonprofits, small and medium-sized businesses and multi-family projects.” (Related: “The Swamp is Deep”: EPA awards billions of dollars to organizations powered by DEM insiders from Biden’s groundbreaking climate bill)
Additionally, Baird took part in Harris’ virtual fundraiser in July 2024. There, he emphasized his opposition to the then-president’s fracking. According to To the free beacon in Washington.
CGC, Blocpower, and Baird did not respond to requests for comment.
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Block Power gained considerable fanfare from the media when it launched its 2021 initiative to electrify Ithaca’s buildings, but the initiative began to move shortly afterwards as key local government supporters left their jobs and worsened the economy. According to On the outlook for America. According to WSKG, other companies that were initially to participate in the Bloss Power efforts as part of a large coalition would not follow in the end, essentially remained as the only entities that would work to see the electrification of Ithaca buildings by the end of 2022.
According to WSKG, Ithaca announced its first 10 commercial buildings in January 2024 that will undergo electrification conversion of block power. The company claimed at the time that it completed electrification projects around town and trained some people to work green jobs, but Blocpower appears to have removed a release announcing progress from the website after WSKG contacted the company, the outlet reported.
According to WSKG, by November 2024, Baird had left Blossofar as Ithaca staff had attacked Ithaca staff and ended the partnership in the Ithaca area.
According to WSKG, Blocpower has never been paid for the project in the end.
According to WSKG, Blocpower also established partnerships in California cities such as Menlo Park and Oakland and in small towns with Denver, New Hampshire, but the Denver-Denver partnership was the only aggressive deal in January 2025. Company’s Website Blocpower claims that “we have completed over 1,200 measures in more than 1,100 buildings across the country, improving energy efficiency, creating green jobs, strengthening economic opportunities for underserved communities, impacting the lives of 5,000 families and impacting the lives of 5,000 families.”
The US outlook asked Baird to introduce the outlet to “satisfied customers” who recognized savings from using Bloss Power to increase building energy efficiency in New York, and also to introduce them to a case study of Bloss Power’s complex business model. Baird refused to offer either. (Related: Trump EPA moves to curb Biden’s $20 billion Green Slash Fund)
Major developments of the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Saga: EPA administrator Lee Zeldin says the agency has ended a large grant drew into a green organization loaded with DEM donors and insiders.
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The company also found a home in New York City under the de Blasio and Adams administrations. According to To Gossa Mist. Blockpower landed a total of $300 million landings from the city under the administration of former Mayors Bill de Blasio and Mayor Eric Adams, spending Greenjobs training efforts in the city and on violence prevention work.
According to Gothamist, Blocpower’s Green Jobs training program provided paid guidance to develop social services and construction, electricity and HVAC skills “established in the summer of 2021.”
Some individuals say they have been trained, but by the end of 2024 there were clear indications of the problem in Bloppu’s relationship with New York City. The subcontractor complained that he had not received payments. City officials also chose to update the program that year because they believed that Bloppu did not properly report information on the program’s performance.
The company challenged the city’s position and released progress reports regularly to Gothamist, informing them that they received additional contracts from the city due to the successful program. In particular, Third Party Research The city commissioned it showed that both the city and the block power had not established metrics to determine or define the successful outcome of the New York City Green Jobs program.
Today, Baird sits on the CGC board of directors, along with numerous Democratic insiders and donors. The Biden EPA has handpicked the CGC and received billions of politically connected officials, but the Trump EPA has It’s finished He has a underlying grant agreement and nails as low as possible, and is currently pending in court.
In public communications addressed to GGRF, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin frequently refers to videos created by the conservative activist group project Veritas. This causes Biden EPA officials to hurry to fund the door before GGRF throws “a bar of gold from titanate.”
The FBI and the Department of Justice are currently investigating the GGRF on the grounds that the program may be involved in taxpayer fund waste, fraud or abuse.
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