Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is pressing a left-wing environmental group and a consumer advocacy organization for answers in connection to a payment totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars for anti-gas stoves research that is linked to the Biden administration’s proposed crackdown

As part of a $375,000 grant in 2021 earmarked for “gas stoves and indoor air quality,” Climate Imperative Foundation helped fund an Oct. 4, 2022, article that linked gas stoves to childhood asthma, tax forms show. Now, Cruz is demanding answers from both CIF and Consumer Reports, the product tester that published the article and was separately cited by Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr., of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in an Oct. 25 memo that proposed a gas stoves ban, according to Thursday letters obtained by the Washington Examiner.

“CPSC’s blind reliance on Consumer Reports’ gas stove pieces to support potential rulemaking is troubling,” Cruz wrote in his letters. “It suggests that activist organizations may be coordinating with the Biden administration to eliminate fossil fuel use without authorization from Congress.”