House GOP Push FBI for Answers on Potential Eco-Terror Threats

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the "Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment" in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 11, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

House Oversight Committee Republicans are opening a new probe into the potential for eco-terrorist attacks within the United States, including attacks on energy infrastructure throughout the country.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on April 15, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.); National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.); and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) raised the specter of a rising eco-terrorism threat and called for an FBI briefing on the matter.