Frank Lasée

Frank Lasée Credentials Background Frank Lasée is a former Wisconsin state legislator. He was elected president of the Heartland Institute in July 2019, succeeding former Heartland president Tim Huelskamp. Before working at Heartland, Lasée served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 2011 to 2017, and in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2008. Lasée was […]

Jennifer Fielder

Jennifer Fielder Credentials Background Jennifer Fielder is the “acting/volunteer” CEO of the American Lands Council, a group that advocates for transferring control of federal public lands to the states. In 2020, Jennifer Fielder was elected to a seat on the Montana Public Service Commission. She […]

Charles Moore

Charles Moore Credentials Background Charles Moore is a journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator. Moore was a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate science denial campaign group, between 2015 and 2023.2“Charles Moore Joins GWPF Board […]

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson Credentials Background Jeremy Clarkson is a broadcaster and journalist best known for the BBC motoring programme Top Gear from which he was dismissed in 2015 after a assaulting producer Oisin Tymon.1 “Jeremy Clarkson,” Top Gear. Archived February 19, 2020. Archive URL: http://archive.fo/gwNoy 2 Tara Conlan. “Jeremy Clarkson apologises to former Top Gear producer […]

Naomi Seibt

Naomi Seibt Credentials Background Naomi Seibt is a German YouTube “influencer” who has been described in the media as the “anti-Greta,” in reference to Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Thunberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and has become the face for youth climate action. Naomi Seibt joined the Heartland Institute‘s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and […]

Energy 45 Fund

Energy 45 Fund Background The Energy 45 Fund (Energy 45) is a nonprofit organization created by Mandy Gunasekara, a longtime Republican climate, energy and environment strategist and former Trump administration official. Energy 45 describes itself as “a Jackson, Mississippi based 501(c)(4) non-profit educational organization dedicated to informing the public about the environmental and economic gains made under […]

Mandy Gunasekara

Mandy Gunasekara Credentials Background Amanda (Mandy) McGrevey Gunasekara is a Republican “climate and energy strategist,” former Trump administration official at the Environmental Protection Agency, and the founder of the “pro-Trump nonprofit” Energy 45 Fund. The Energy 45 Fund (Energy 45) describes itself as “a Jackson, Mississippi based 501(c)(4) non-profit educational organization dedicated to informing the public about the […]

Brendan O’Neill

Brendan O’Neill Credentials Background Brendan O’Neill was the editor of Spiked until stepping down in September 2021. He remains its chief political writer. Spiked is an online libertarian magazine […]

Spiked

Spiked Background Spiked is a UK-based online magazine and podcast series that aims to “change the world as well as report on it” and fight for “humanism, democracy and freedom”, according to its website.1 “About spiked” Spiked. Archived February 11, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/gk8Xk The magazine was founded in 2001 by members of Living Marxism, […]

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Julia Hartley-Brewer Credentials Background Julia Hartley-Brewer is a British journalist, broadcaster and radio presenter. She hosts the weekday breakfast show on talkRADIO and is a columnist for The Telegraph.1 “Presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer” talkRADIO. Archived February 10, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/8L4t 2 “Columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer” The Telegraph. Archived February 10, 2020. Archive.fo URL: http://archive.fo/uxtU In the […]