Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Background The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded by civil rights activist James Farmer in 1942 and was originally a leading civil rights organization that later aligned itself with conservative and anti-environmentalย groups. In 1993, James Farmer himself told New York Newsdayย that โCORE has no functioning chapters; it holds no […]
David Evans
David Evans Credentials Background David M. W. Evans is an editor for the Australian edition of GoldNerds, a company that sells information about gold companies to investors. He also does private mathematics research. Evans works alongside his wife Joanne Nova at Science Speak, a group that describes itself as โa small private scientific modeling and […]
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz (Deceased) Credentials Background Dr. Frederick Seitz passed away on March 2, 2008. He was the former head of Rockefeller University, a former head of the National Academy of Sciences and the principal scientific advisor to the R.J. Reynolds medical research program. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute, and later […]
Tom Harris
Tom Harris Credentials Background Tom Harris is the Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), a group of climate change skeptics that has received funding from the Heartland Institute. Before starting work with ICSC, Harris was the Executive Director of the now-defunct Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP).1 โWHO WE ARE,โ International Climate Science […]
Dan Gainor
Dan Gainor Credentials Background Dan Gainor is the Director of the Business & Media Institute, a free market think tank operating under another organization called the Media Research Center which also operates Newsbusters, a site where right-wing media question the existence of man-made global warming. BMI describes its mission as โ[auditing] the media’s coverage of […]
John Charles
John A. Charles Jr. Credentials Background John A. Charles Jr. is the president and CEO of the Cascade Policy Institute. He started as their Environmental Policy director in 1997 with his research focused on โtransportation, land use, and free-market environmentalism.โ He is a contributing author to Citizenโs Guide […]
Alexandra Liddy Bourne
Alexandra Liddy Bourne Credentials Background Alexandra โSandyโ Liddy Bourne a senior policy advisor at the Heartland Institute where she addresses energy and environmental regulation. She was the Heartland Institute’s vice-president for policy and strategy from 2006 until December 2008 and acted as Heartlandโs Washington DC media spokesman and liaison to Heartland’s Legislative Advisors (elected officials), […]
Joseph Bast
Joseph Bast Credentials Background Joseph Bast co-founded the Heartland Institute in 1984 with David M. Padden (1927 – 2011) and served as Heartland’s CEO until January 2018. Bast stayed on as a Director and Senior Fellow. Tim Huelskamp, a former member of Congress, succeeded Bast as Heartland’s president.1โABOUT US,โ The Heartland Institute. Archied June 20, […]
Owen McShane
Owen McShane (1941-2012) Credentials Background Owen McShane ran a website called โStraight Thinkingโ which originally launched in 1995 in a a magazine format. According to his bio on the site, McShane’s background was in architecture and town planning. He died on March 6, 2012, according to his profile on the Heartland Institute‘s website.1โOWEN MCSHANE (1941-2012),โ […]
Art Horn
Art Horn Credentials Degree in meteorology from Lyndon State College. Background Art Horn is a meteorologist and runs a website called the โArtโ of Weather. Horn has a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Lyndon State College and used to work as a TV weatherman […]