U.S. funding for the Paris-based International Energy Agency is on the chopping block this budget season.
Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee approved legislation Wednesday that calls for canceled funding for the IEA, according to the Republican report attached to the bill.
If approved by both chambers of Congress, the move would mark a stark departure from decades of U.S. funding for an organization that was established in the wake of the 1970s Arab oil embargo but has recently drawn the ire of Republicans.
“The Committee finds that the Agency has abandoned objectivity in the critical energy-supply information it produces and, instead, has pursued politicized information to support climate policy advocacy,” says the report, which is attached to a State Department appropriations bill for fiscal 2026.
