The institute was founded in 1984 by Chicago investor David H. Padden. In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking second ...

Charlie Katebi was a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute from 2017 to 2019. His role included interacting with elected officials and staff, legislation tracking, and research ...

Policy Advisor, The Heartland Institute John E. Windschill, now a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute, retired from a long career in the nuclear power industry in 2013. Among other companies, ...

Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were at the UK launch of a US-based climate change denying lobbying group in December. The Heartland Institute, the US-based free market think tank known for denying ...

The GM-Heartland connection came to light when internal Heartland documents were leaked by the Pacific Institute's Peter Gleick.From them, we learned that the General Motors Foundation (GM's ...

The climate denial group’s new shop will be led by Lois Perry, a right-wing commentator. A prominent U.S. climate denial group is expanding to Europe. The Illinois-based Heartland Institute ...

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