Press Releases: Environment

Fakegate: Heartland Replies to Greenpeace

March 27, 2012
Joseph Bast

CHICAGO, IL March 26, 2012: Recently, a Greenpeace activist named Cindy Baxter suddenly recalled that “someone calling himself ‘John’ and saying he was with a US environmental NGO” recorded a brief

Study: Gleick Forged 'Fakegate' Memo

March 14, 2012
Joseph Bast

March 14, 2012 – A computer analysis of the “climate strategy memo” at the heart of the widely publicized global warming scandal called “Fakegate” concludes di

Heartland Science Director to Testify in State House Today on Renewable Energy

March 13, 2012

MARCH 13, 2012 – Jay Lehr, Ph.D., science director of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, will testify this morning before the Kansas House Energy and Utilities Committee on renewable energy.

Heartland Institute Comments on Today’s Surface Transportation Amendment Votes

March 13, 2012
James M. Taylor, J.D.

CHICAGO (March 13, 2012) – The U.S. Senate today considered several amendments to the Surface Transportation bill (S. 1813) that dealt with changing incentive structures for energy resources.

Fakegate: Open Letter to Directors of the Pacific Institute

February 29, 2012
Joseph Bast

FEBRUARY 29, 2012 - Today, The Heartland Institute sent the letter below to the following members of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute:

Heartland Institute President Debunks Fakegate Memo

February 27, 2012
Joseph Bast

FEBRUARY 27, 2012 – The Heartland Institute today released an analysis of the fake "climate strategy" memo circulated by Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick to fellow environmental activists a

Heartland Institute Releases Peter Gleick Emails Detailing Fraud, Identity Theft

February 24, 2012
Joseph Bast

Correspondence Began Same Day He Rejected Invitation to Debate

Heartland Institute Comments on “Fakegate”

February 20, 2012
Joseph Bast

FEBRUARY 20, 2012 - What began as the theft of documents from The Heartland Institute has become a major scandal involving DeSmogBlog, ThinkProgress, and the Huffington Post in which many other fig