The Loophole That’s Letting Conservatives Manipulate Renewable Energy Standards
By Tiffany Germain and Matt Kasper As the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, continue to target states’ renewable energy standard (RES) ...
Conservatives Aim To Roll Back Kansas Renewable Energy Standard
By Matt Kasper Lawmakers in Kansas this week have started to hold hearings regarding the state’s existing renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS). Lawmakers in both the Senate and ...
Despite Conservative Attacks, States Continue to Realize the Benefits of Renewable Energy Standards
by Matt Kasper and Tom Kenworthy, Center for American Progress States’ adoption of renewable energy standards—which require electric utility companies to produce a portion of their ...
Heeding Public Outrage, Pfizer Drops Climate Denial And Tobacco Front Group Heartland Institute
by Brad Johnson The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (PFE) has confirmed that it will no longer support the Heartland Institute, a political advocacy group that questions the science of ...
Senator Inhofe And The Heartland Institute Roll Out Underwhelming Campaign To Slash The EPA
Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe joins the Heartland Institute at the Capitol building this morning to unveil a new campaign to rein in the “rogue” Environmental ...
Conservative Groups Team Up To Fight Renewable Energy: ‘We’re Going To See A Knock-Out, Drag-Out Fight’
The campaign to kill renewable energy, brought to you by the organization that gave you this billboard. Six months after rolling out a disastrous billboard campaign that linked people ...
Pfizer Refuses To Pull Funding From Anti-Science Front Group, Says $45,000 Grant To Heartland Is ‘Best For Shareholders’
After Pfizer Contribution, Heartland Continues Attacks On Climate Science And Tobacco Risks
By Brad Johnson, campaign manager of Forecast the Facts
Despite rising pressure from scientists ...
Forbes Still Publishing Heartland’s Climate Nonsense
by Jocelyn Fong, via Media Matters
A recent Forbes column alleges that federal scientists are “doctoring” temperature data to fabricate a warming trend, after the National ...
Nucor CEO: Funding Of Heartland Institute’s Climate Denial ‘Is Entirely Appropriate’
By Brad Johnson, campaign manager for Forecast the Facts.
Nucor Corporation (NUE), the third largest U.S. steel manufacturer, is defending its support for the Heartland Institute’s ...
Breaking: Pacific Institute Reinstates Peter Gleick After Outside Review Confirms His Public Statements On Heartland Affair
What a twin reversal of fortune. While the Heartland Institute has melted down because of its overreaction to climate scientist Peter Gleick’s release of their funding documents, ...
The Heartland Institute’s Special Guest: Scott Walker
By Brad Johnson, campaign manager for Forecast the Facts
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Heartland Institute’s benefit dinner in August, ...
With Latest Corporate Defection, Heartland Institute Losses Now Exceed $1 Million
by Brad Johnson, campaign manager of Forecast the Facts
LKQ, an auto-parts company that had been a major contributor to the Heartland Institute, has decided to end their association ...
The Self-Inflicted Downfall Of The Heartland Institute
A protester outside Heartland's climate denier conference. Photo: Kelly Mitchell
“I don’t appreciate being called a terrorist,” the woman said firmly.
I was standing ...
Lack Of Funding Forces Heartland To End Climate Denial Conference
The Heartland Institute has announced that this year’s climate denial conference will be its last for the foreseeable future. In his closing speech at this year’s event ...
Heartland Denial Conference: Special Guest Lord Monckton Goes Birther, Admits He Has ‘No Scientific Qualification’
Monckton watches the protesters outside Heartland's conference.
With the Heartland Institute suffering from a public relations disaster that caused 11 donors to abandon financial ...
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