Tag(s): ; ; ;
Add to My Group
     
View Article Stats      (4 comments)


Promoted to Primary Headline on 2/19/12:
EXPOSED: 19 Corporations Funding The Climate-Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute


Quicklink submitted by Amanda Lang
(Add your own quicklinks easily with the
OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark
)


Tell A Friend
FACEBOOK
submit to twitter
submit to reddit
submit to stumble upon

Must Read 1   Well Said 1   Valuable 1   View Ratings | Rate It

One in a series of posts about the Heartland Institute's inner workings, from internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green. Heartland has issued a press release claiming that some of these documents were sent to an outsider under false pretenses and that one document in the set is a fake, but the AP independently verified their contents. Internal documents acquired by ThinkProgress Green reveal that the climate-denial think tank Heartland Institute received funding from at least 19 publicly traded corporations in 2010 and 2011. The companies' combined contributions exceeded $1.3 million for an array of projects. As Think Progress Green reported on Tuesday, the Heartland Institute's projects included a secret plan to teach children that climate change is a hoax. The companies backing the Heartland Institute:

Read the rest of the story HERE:


 

Comments

The time limit for entering new comments on this Quicklink has expired.

This limit can be removed. Our paid membership program is designed to give you many benefits, such as removing this time limit. To learn more, please click here.

Comments: Expand   Shrink   Hide  
4 comments
To view all comments:
Expand Comments
(Or you can set your preferences to show all comments, always)

Icecap.us links by Mike Preston on Monday, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:45:18 PM
Fake is Fake by gravity32 on Monday, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:12:41 PM
Faker confesses by gravity32 on Monday, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:25:38 PM
This Great Group by Dennis Kaiser on Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:58:17 AM