Things Degrading At Heartland Institute To The Point That Asshole Tim Huelskamp Is Leaving

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The leader of the Heartland Institute has abruptly departed after a short stint in charge of the organization known for rejecting climate science. Former Rep. Tim Huelskamp left the group last week, less than two years after he became its leader. In July 2017, Huelskamp took over Heartland's leadership role from co-founder Joe Bast, who headed its operations for 34 years.

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That may be because Heartland's extreme level of climate science denial has been eroded in Washington in recent years. A growing number of Republican lawmakers accept that humans are the primary drivers of climate change. Public polling has shown more acceptance of climate science in recent years, even among conservative Republicans. Multiple Republicans have proposed modest climate policies.

At the same time, Heartland has seen other groups, including the CO2 Coalition, another group that rejects climate science, rise in influence in the Trump White House (Climatewire, Feb. 28). Heartland has had some small successes in the Trump era. Bast was invited to attend the Rose Garden ceremony where Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, and, under former Administrator Scott Pruitt, EPA officials reached out to Heartland for recommendations of researchers who refused to acknowledge climate science.

And yet, despite aggressive courting, the group could never land Pruitt as a speaker for any of its conferences, even as the former EPA chief traveled to speak at other events around the country.

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https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2019/06/11/stories/1060543395

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