EXCLUSIVE — A left-wing group shaping President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is being asked by House Republicans to turn over internal records and for one of its top staffers to appear for a transcribed interview, as the GOP slams the organization for allegedly failing to comply with a subpoena.

In sets of letters Friday to Ceres employee Andrew Logan and the Boston-based charity’s lawyer Matthew Miller, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) raised concerns to Ceres over whether it may have violated antitrust law by helping to lead a $68 trillion climate initiative that includes companies pressuring regulators to adopt green energy-friendly policies. Jordan wrote in the letters that Ceres hasn’t fully cooperated with his June 2023 subpoena to the group for information on its promotion of corporate environmental, social, and governance, which the Right has increasingly scrutinized due to it allegedly promoting “woke” policies.

The top Republican also asked Logan, senior director of climate and energy, and oil and gas, at Ceres, to schedule a transcribed interview with Congress by July 26 “on what extent Ceres may facilitate collusion to promote ESG-related goals.” Logan, according to documents obtained by congressional investigators, is involved with the Ceres-linked climate initiative called Climate Action 100+.

“Ceres has failed to produce materials from the Ceres investor portal, a communications and information-sharing platform used by Ceres and its members,” Jordan wrote in one letter to Miller, the Ceres lawyer. “Such materials are directly responsive to the committee’s subpoena, and despite repeated outreach by the committee and good faith attempts to work with Ceres, Ceres has continually refused to produce documents from its investor portal.”

The Ceres Investor Network “represents more than 220 institutional investors with $44 trillion in assets under management who are committed to responsible investment practices and policies that help protect the planet while also improving portfolio value,” according to Ceres.

The Washington Examiner reported in January, based on internal documents, that Ceres worked behind the scenes to shape a climate disclosure rule by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that many energy groups say is a free-market overreach.

Shortly after that report, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) asked the SEC to withdraw the then-proposal over “a potential conflict of interest” and legal concerns, citing documents that linked outside groups to it.

On Thursday, GOP senators grilled an SEC nominee over her support for the rule, which is paused amid litigation.

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Sara Sciammacco, a spokeswoman for Ceres, confirmed to the Washington Examiner Friday that the group received the letters from the House Judiciary Committee.

“Ceres will continue to cooperate with the committee,” Sciammacco said.