The Washington Free Beacon recently reported that during its final weeks, the Biden administration's Department of Energy (DoE) earmarked billions of dollars in green energy loans to utility companies in Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's home state of Michigan. This violated the DoE Inspector General's directive to the Biden administration to suspend the loan program amid conflict-of-interest concerns.

Now for the details.

Generous last-minute loans were provided to Granholm's largest campaign donors during her Michigan gubernatorial campaigns. The DoE's Loan Programs Office awarded $22.9 billion in loan guarantees for utility companies to develop green energy projects across 12 states. More than $14 billion was awarded to DTE Energy and Consumers Energy. Both firms have ties to Granholm.

State Records show DTE Energy's political action committee contributed over $34,000 to Granholm's 2006 gubernatorial campaign. Then-DTE Energy CEO Stephen Ewing, whom Granholm appointed to serve on the state's Early Childhood Investment Corporation Executive Committee, donated another $3,400 to Granholm's campaign in 2004. State records also show that, during that time, Consumers Energy's political action committee donated $25,000 to Granholm's gubernatorial campaign.

Brandon Hofmeister, a top official at Consumers Energy, served as Granholm's energy and climate policy adviser and deputy legal counsel when she was governor.

CNBC reported on Granholm's financial ties to DTE and Consumers Energy in 2020 when Biden nominated her for his energy secretary. Despite this potential conflict of interest, Granholm was 

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