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The '''Heartland Institute''', according to the Institute's web site, is a nonprofit "[[think tank]]" that questions the reality and import of climate change, second-hand smoke health hazards, and a host of other issues that might seem to require government regulation. Heartland Institute is an "associate member" of the State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom.

A July 2011 ''Nature'' editorial points out the group's lack of credibility:
:''"Despite criticizing climate scientists for being overconfident about their data, models and theories, the Heartland Institute proclaims a conspicuous confidence in single studies and grand interpretations....makes many bold assertions that are often questionable or misleading.... Many climate sceptics seem to review scientific data and studies not as scientists but as attorneys, magnifying doubts and treating incomplete explanations as falsehoods rather than signs of progress towards the truth. ... The Heartland Institute and its ilk are not trying to build a theory of anything. They have set the bar much lower, and are happy muddying the waters."''<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Nature :  Nature Publishing Group |title=Heart of the matter  |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7357/full/475423b.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20110728 |accessdate=2011-08-14 |author= Nature Volume: 475, Pages: 423–424 Date published:  (28 July 2011) DOI:  doi:10.1038/475423b |date=2011-07-28 |quote= }}</ref>

An August 2014 Travis County Texas court ruling highlighted President and CEO [[Joseph Bast]]'s lack of credibility and reliability:

:''"Mr. Joseph Bast, president and CEO of the Heartland Institute, testified for the Intervenors regarding the Texas Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Programs (“TTSGP”), a school voucher bill that failed in the 82nd Legislative Session. As a threshold matter, this Court finds that Mr. Bast is not a credible witness and that he did not offer reliable opinions in this matter. While Mr. Bast described himself as an economist, he holds neither undergraduate nor graduate degrees in economics, and the highest level of education he completed was high school. Mr. Bast testified that he is 100% committed to the long-term goal of getting government out of the business of educating its own voting citizens. Further, his use of inflammatory and irresponsible language regarding global warming, and his admission that the long term goal of his advocacy of vouchers is to dismantle the “socialist” public education system further undermine his credibility with this Court."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915072844/http://www.co.travis.tx.us/courts/civil/district/pdfs/school-finance-findings-conclusions.pdf "The Texas Taxpayer & Student Fairness Coalition et al. vs Williams et al. (pdf)]," D-1-GN-11-003130, (District Court of Travis County Texas 2014), 335 to 336.</ref>

In addition to its main website, Heartland manages the following websites:
*[http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ NIPCC: Climate Change Reconsidered]
*[http://freetochoosemedicine.com/ Free to Choose Medicine]
*[https://stoppingsocialism.com/ Stopping Socialism]
*[http://climatechangeawards.org/ Climate Change Awards]
*[http://climateconferences.heartland.org/ International Conferences on Climate Change]
*[http://leftexposed.org/ Left Exposed]
*[http://american-exceptionalism.org/ American Exceptionalism]

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==News and Controversies==
===Heartland Institute Called Out for Blocking Action on Climate Change===

In July of 2016, nineteen U.S. Senators delivered a series of speeches denouncing climate change denial from 32 organizations with links to fossil-fuel interests, including the Heartland Institute.<ref name="sw">Sheldon Whitehouse, "[https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senators-call-out-web-of-denial-blocking-action-on-climate-change Senators Call Out Web of Denial Blocking Action On Climate Change]," ''Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse'', July 15, 2016.</ref>  Sen. Whitehouse (RI-D), who led the effort to expose "the web of denial" said in his remarks on the floor that the purpose was to,
:"shine a little light on the web of climate denial and spotlight the bad actors in the web, who are polluting our American discourse with phony climate denial.  This web of denial, formed over decades, has been built and provisioned by the deep-pocketed [[Koch brothers]], by [[ExxonMobil]], by [[Peabody coal]], and by other fossil fuel interests.  It is a grim shadow over our democracy in that it includes an electioneering effort that spends hundreds of millions of dollars in a single election cycle and threatens any Republican who steps up to address the global threat of climate change. . . .  [I]t is long past time we shed some light on the perpetrators of this web of denial and expose their filthy grip on our political process.  It is a disgrace, and our grandchildren will look back at this as a dirty time in America’s political history because of their work.”<ref name="sw"/>

==="Heartland Insider Leaked Documents===
An anonymous donor called "Heartland Insider" released documents in February 2012 of the Heartland Institute's budget, fundraising plan, and Climate Strategy for 2012. 

The 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy states that the Institute got $200,000 in 2011 from the [[Charles G. Koch Foundation]], and nearly a million from an anonymous donor. Goals of the organization included: 
* working with [[David E. Wojick]] on "providing [K-12 school] curriculum that shows that the topic of [[climate change]] is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science"; 
* "sponsor[ing] the NIPCC [Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change] to undermine the official United Nation's IPCC [International Panel on Climate Change] reports" including paying "a team of writers $388,000 in 2011 to work on a series of editions of [http://nipccreport.org/ Climate Change Reconsidered]"; and
* funding [[climate change]] deniers [[Craig Idso]] ($11,600 per month), [[Fred Singer]] ($5,000 a month),  [[James Taylor]] who has written a lot about [[Climategate]] through his [[Forbes]] blog, and [[Anthony Watts]] ($90,000 for 2012) to challenge "warmist science essays that counter our own," including funding "external networks (such as WUWT [Watts Up With That?] and other groups capable of rapidly mobilizing responses to new scientific findings, news stories, or unfavorable blog posts)."<ref>Richard Littlemore, [http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-insider-exposes-institute-s-budget-and-strategy "Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy"] Heartland Institute, Feb. 14, 2012.</ref>

The Institute later confirmed the authenticity of some of the released documents, but maintained in a Feb. 15, 2012 press release that the Climate Strategy was "a forgery apparently intended to defame and discredit The Heartland Institute."<ref>Kate Sheppard, [http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/02/heartland-institute-documents-climate "Internal Heartland Institute Email Blasts "Lamestream Media" for Climate Leak,"] Mother Jones, Feb. 16, 2012.</ref>

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====Scientist Peter Gleick Admits to Leaking Climate Documents====
On February 19th, just weeks after the documents were released, [[Peter H. Gleick]] of the environmental group [[Pacific Institute]] admitted to the Huffington Post that he lied to obtain climate documents. In the article [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/-the-origin-of-the-heartl_b_1289669.html The Origin of the Heartland Documents] Gleick verified that the documents were not altered. Glecik says he obtained an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be details of the Heartland Institute's climate program strategy. In an attempt to verify these documents, Gleick solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else's name. It was these documents that Gleick forwarded to a set of environmental journalists. <ref> Perer H. Gleick, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/-the-origin-of-the-heartl_b_1289669.html The Origin of the Heartland Documents], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com Huffington Post], February 19, 2012 </ref> 

Gleick offered his "personal apologies to all those affected," and said his judgment was clouded by his "frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists … and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved." <ref> Neela Banerjee, [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-climate-documents-20120222,0,7220518.story Scientist Peter Gleick admits he lied to get climate documents], [http://www.latimes.com Los Angeles Times], February 21, 2012 </ref>

====Heartland Sends Threatening Emails====
In the days and weeks following the release of the leaked documents, Heartland has been on an aggressive campaign to rid the information from the public domain. Heartland has targeted a number of bloggers who have reported on the matter. Under the premise that the leaked documents are a "fake memo" which were not created by anyone associated with the Heartland Institute, Heartland officials cited no laws while they "respectfully demanded" that the content be removed from [http://www.desmogblog.com DeSmogBlog.com] in an email they titled, "[http://joannenova.com.au/2012/02/heartland-sends-out-first-legal-notice-about-stolen-and-faked-documents/ Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents]." This was the first in a series of emails sent out to bloggers across the internet where legal action was threatened. <ref> Charles Johnson, 
 [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39944_Climate_Change_Denial_Front_Group_Heartland_Institute_Sends_Emails_to_Bloggers_Threatening_Legal_Action/comments/ Climate Change Denial Front Group Heartland Institute Sends Emails to Bloggers Threatening Legal Action], accessed February 21, 2012 </ref> <ref> Greg Laden, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220073030/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/i_just_got_an_email_from_the_h.php I just got an email from the Heartland Institute about the "HeartlandGate" documents], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> <ref>Greg Laden, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302074748/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/heartland-1_ncse-0.php Heartland-1 ... NCSE-0], ''Archive.org website'', February 29, 2012.</ref> 

In an attempt to explain why Heartland is doing this, co-founder of the Heartland Institute [[Joseph Bast]] writes “We realize this will be portrayed by some as a heavy-handed threat to free speech. But the First Amendment doesn’t protect Internet fraud, and there is no right to defamatory speech." <ref>Joannenova, [http://joannenova.com.au/2012/02/heartland-sends-out-first-legal-notice-about-stolen-and-faked-documents/ Hearyland send out first legal notice about stolen and faked documents], ''Joannanova website'', accessed February 21, 2012. </ref>

Gary Wamsley, A 71-year-old veteran received a threatening email from [[Joseph Bast]] after sending what Wamsley calls "a strongly worded email to the president and all the board members of the Heartland Institute," concerning his feelings on science education. 

In the initial email Wamsley writes, "You should be ashamed of yourself. The United States already has a problem in keeping up with the rest of the world in science education and now you want to play a role in further destroying our nation as well as our planet...I did not spend 30 years in the military to protect the likes of you." 

Bast replied asking Wamsley to apologize for the "intemperate and very offensive letter." He also writes, "since your letter is threatening, I’ve forwarded it to our legal counsel, forensics team, and the [[FBI]]. It is important that you not delete the email from your sent file, or any other emails you may have exchanged with other people while preparing it, since this could be evidence in criminal and civil cases." <ref> Gary Wamsley, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514051407/http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/2012/02/19/heartland-institute-threatens-71-year-old-veteran/ Heartland Institute Threatens 71-Year-Old Veteran], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017. </ref> 

The climate scientists who had their emails stolen in a similar matter known as "[[Climategate]]" have turned Heartland's nonsense threats of legal action around on them. A [http://www.peer.org/docs/doc/2_21_12_Heartland_Institute_turnabout_ltr.pdf letter] sent to the Heartland Institute by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund uses the threatening language of the Heartland Institute. The letter says, "[We] view the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the Climatic Research Unit documents were obtained and/or thereafter disseminated, as well as the repeated blogs about them as providing the basis for civil actions against those who obtained and/or disseminated them and blogged about them. The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund fully intends to pursue all possible actionable civil remedies to the fullest extent of the law." <ref> Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120316234252/http://www.peer.org/docs/doc/2_21_12_Heartland_Institute_turnabout_ltr.pdf PEER Letter: February 21, 2012], ''Archive.org website'', February 21, 2012. </ref>

====Operation Angry Badger====

Leaked documents show that the Hearland-Institute is planning to spend $612,000 supporting Wisconsin Governor [[Scott Walker]] and four GOP Senators in their probable recall elections in a pro-Walker campaign they are calling “[https://www.prwatch.org/node/11305 Operation Angry Badger].” 

In the leaked [http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/(1-15-2012)%202012%20Fundraising%20Plan_0.pdf documents] Heartland wrote: "The recall elections of 2012 amount to a referenda on collective bargaining reform at the state level, making them of national interest. Successful recalls would be a major setback to the national effort to rein in public-sector compensation and union power." 

The documents propose a $612,000 campaign to include print ads, mailers, web ads, and blog posts that would promote the "successes" of Wisconsin Act 10 and portray Wisconsin teachers as overpaid and schools as underperforming.
<ref> Brendan Fischer,[https://www.prwatch.org/node/11305 “Angry Badger,” Plan Revealed: Another “Charity” Gets Involved in WI Recall], [http://www,prwartch.org PRWatch], February 20, 2012 </ref> <ref> Bill Glauber, [http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/leaked-documents-detail-operation-angry-badger-u447pp9-139483133.html Leaked Documents detail, “Operation Angry Badger”], [http://www.jsonline.com JS Online], February 16, 2012 </ref> 

====Campaign Against Climate Science====
The leaked documents offer a glimpse into the Heartland Institute’s campaign against climate science. The documents suggest that Heartland is planning new push to undermine the teaching of [[global warming]] in public schools

The leaked documents outline plans to promote a curriculum that would cast doubt on the scientific finding that fossil fuel emissions endanger the long-term welfare of the planet. One particular document says, “Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective.” <ref> Justin Gillis, Leslie Kaufman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/in-heartland-institute-leak-a-plan-to-discredit-climate-teaching.html?scp=4&sq=heartland&st=cse Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science], [http://www.nytimes.con New York Times], February 15, 2012 </ref>
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===Disturbing ties with Pruitt EPA===
In May 2018, released emails showed Environmental Protection Agency asking Heartland, calling itself the "pre-eminent organization opposing the radical climate alarmism agenda", for suggestions of scientists and economists they might recommend "for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and promote Administrator Scott Pruitt's stewardship of the agency", including people associated with groups countering the scientific community's cautions regarding man-made climate change, like Plants Need CO2, The Right Climate Stuff, and Junk Science. The emails, obtained by FOIA request lawsuits by Environmental Defense Fund and the Southern Environmental Law Center, reveal how the upper echelon of the EPA actively sought out people who shared their disdain for regulations and their enforcement. Environmental groups criticized the EPA for ignoring the conclusions of EPA and other scientists regarding man-made carbon emissions and their climate-change impacts.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-cooperated-with-group-that-dismisses-climate-change-emails-show/</ref> 

==Ties to the State Policy Network==
The Heartland Institute is an associate member of the right-wing [[State Policy Network]] (SPN) <ref>State Policy Network, [https://spn.org/directory/ SPN: Directory, Associates in Illinois], ''SPN website'', Accessed August 29, 2017. </ref> and was featured in SPN's Associate Member Updates in July/August 2017.  According to the SPN website, "The Heartland Institute has sent more than 350,000 copies of the book “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” to every K–12 and college-level science teacher in America. The 100-page book is one chapter of the latest in the Climate Change Reconsidered series. This is a much-needed critical examination of the peer-reviewed climate science literature by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). The project has been a huge success, generating extensive media coverage and traffic on social media. The mailing was accompanied by a copy of a DVD, “History of Climate Change in Greenland” produced by Free to Choose Media." <ref>State Policy Network, [https://spn.org/associate-member-updates-julyaugust-2017/ Associate Member Updates: July/August 2017], ''SPN website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> 

SPN's January/February 2017 newsletter also featured the Heartland Institute's policy recommendations for the incoming administration: "In November, The Heartland Institute released its “Action Plan for President Trump,” which offered 34 free-market policy recommendations for the incoming administration in environment & energy, education, health care, budget and taxes, and constitutional reform. Highlights include withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, devolving EPA’s power to the states, eliminating the Department of Education, supporting a plan similar to the “Ryan Roadmap” or “Path to Prosperity” plans to balance the budget in 10 years, repealing Obamacare, privatizing the Veterans Administration, and encouraging passage of the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act." <ref>State Policy Network, [https://spn.org/associate-member-updates-januaryfebruary-2017/  Associate Member Updates: January/February 2017], ''SPN website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> 

Additional information regarding the Heartland Institute's recent publications on climate change and climate science were featured in SPN's Associate Member Updates, including ''Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming'' and ''Clexit, For a Brighter Future.'' <ref>State Policy Network, [https://spn.org/associate-member-updates-mayjune-2017/ Associate Member Updates: May/June 2017], ''SPN website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> <ref>State Policy Network, [https://spn.org/associate-member-update-augustseptember-2016/ Associate Member Updates: August/September 2016], ''SPN website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>
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==Ties to the Koch Brothers==

The Heartland Institute is connected to the [[Koch brothers]] and their network of right-wing donors. In the past, the Institute has accepted $40,000 from the [[Claude R. Lambe Foundation]] and $62,578 from the [[Charles G. Koch Foundation]]. Both organizations are members of the [[Koch Family Foundations]].<ref>American Bridge, [http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/heartland-institute/page/3/?order_by=year%20DESC  Heartland Institute Financial Records], ConservativeTransparency.org, accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>
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==Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council==
The Heartland Institute is a member of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC) as of 2010-2011.<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205035002/http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/InsideALEC/InsideALEC_June10_Final.pdf Inside ALEC Jun. 2010], organization newsletter, June 2010, p. 21</ref> It is a member of ALEC's [[Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force]],<ref name="TITMeetingAgenda">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Telecommunications & Information Technology Task Force Meeting," agenda and meeting materials, August 5, 2011, on file with CMD</ref> [[Education Task Force]],<ref name="EdMeetingAgenda">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Education Task Force Meeting," agenda and meeting materials, August 5, 2011, on file with CMD</ref> [[Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force]] Financial Services Subcommittee<ref name="MeetingAgenda">American Legislative Exchange Council, Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development Task Force Meeting Agenda, August 3, 2011, on file with CMD</ref> and [[Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force]].<ref name="EEAMeetingMaterials">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Energy, Environment, and Agriculture 2011 Annual Meeting Task Force Meeting," speaker biographies and materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD</ref> James Taylor, managing editor of the Heartland publication [[Environment & Climate News]], spoke at the [[Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force]] meeting at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting.<ref name="EEAMeetingMaterials"/> Heartland was also an Exhibitor at ALEC's 2011 Annual Meeting.<ref name="Corporate Chairs">American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011</ref> 

The Heartland Institute has also functioned as a publisher and promoter of ALEC's model legislation.<ref>Heartland Institute, [https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Additional_Bills_Discovered#At_the_Heartland_Institute_Website ALEC Model Legislation] published at the Heartland Institute website, accessed August 2011</ref> At the [[Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force]] meeting of ALEC's 2010 annual meeting, Alan Smith “The Hurricane Mitigation Promotion Act” and “A Resolution Concerning Tax Treatment of Affiliated Reinsurance.”<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council, Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development Task Force meeting agenda and materials, August 6, 2010, on file with CMD</ref> Marc Oestreich, who represents Heartland on the [[Education Task Force]], has also sponsored model legislation. Oestreich sponsored the "Parent Trigger Act," which he presented at the 2010 States and Nation Policy Summit,<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council, Education Task Force meeting agenda and materials, December 3, 2010, on file with CMD</ref> and the "Taxpayers’ Savings Grants Act," which he presented to the K–12 Education Reform Subcommittee during ALEC’s 38th Annual Meeting.<ref>American Legislative Exchange Council, Education Task Force, K–12 Education Reform Subcommittee meeting agenda and materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD</ref>  

===Heartland Partners With ALEC to Roll Back Renewable Energy Sources===

As a part of its 2013 agenda, ALEC partnered with the Heartland Institute to roll back the [[Renewable Portfolio Standard]] (RPS), state-level legislation that requires utility companies to produce a certain amount of their total energy from renewable sources.<ref name="BF2013">Brendan Fischer, [https://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12193/dirty-hands-77-alec-bills-2013-advance-big-oil-big-ag-agenda Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance A Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda], ''PR Watch'', August 1, 2013.</ref>

The Institute brought a model bill, dubbed the Electricity Freedom Act, to ALEC's attention in May 2012. While ALEC publicly expressed its high hopes for the legislation, the bill had little success in state houses during the 2013 legislative session, failing to pass every legislature in which it was introduced.<ref name="BF2013"/>
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==Ties to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation==

Per ''Conservative Transparency,'' the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation donated $1,215,500 to the Heartland Institute between 1994 and 2014. <ref>Conservative Transparency, [http://conservativetransparency.org/top/?recipient=29133&yr=2009&yr1=&yr2=2014&submit= Top Supporters of Heartland Institute], ''Conservative Transparency website'', Accessed August 28, 2017.</ref>
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==Tobacco Ties==
''See [[Heartland Institute and tobacco]] for extensive documentation of the Institute's tobacco ties.''

==Actions and policy==
===Disputing global warming===
====Heartland's climate conferences====
*March 2008,  The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change<ref>Heartland Institute,
 [https://web.archive.org/web/20080311220835/http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/newyork08.cfm The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 2017.</ref>

* March 2009, International Conference on Climate Change (2009), in New York.<ref>Heartland Institute,
 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090306075158/http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html "The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change"], ''Archive.org website'', accessed January 2009.</ref><ref>Suzanne Goldenberg, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/mar/12/climate-change-sceptic-environment "Meet the sceptics"], ''The Guardian'', 11 March 2009.</ref> 

* June 2009, [[Third International Conference on Climate Change]] in Washington, DC on June 2, 2009 at the Washington Court Hotel,  to "call attention to widespread dissent to the asserted 'consensus' on various aspects of climate change and global warming," according to Heartland's announcement of the event. "The conference's theme will be ''Climate Change: Scientific Debate and Economic Analysis''. The theme reflects the fact that the scientific debate is not over and that economic analysis is more important than ever, now that legislation is being seriously considered. The real science and economics of climate change support the view that global warming is not a crisis and that immediate action to reduce emissions is not necessary. This is, in fact, the emerging consensus view of scientists outside the IPCC and most economists outside environmental advocacy groups," Heartland's website states. <ref name="Announce">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090709144519/http://www.heartland.org/events/WashingtonDC09/index.html "Welcome"], Heartland Institute, accessed May 2009.</ref>

* May 2010, Fourth, Chicago
* Oct 2010, Fifth (Pacific Rim), Sydney, Australia
* June 2011, Sixth, Washington DC.  Non-fringe climate scientist [http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/faculty/denning.php Scott Denning] gave an excellent talk, pointing out that "climate will change a lot in the next generation and policy ''will'' be enacted" and yet "the political right has been AWOL in proposing effective solutions". He challenged his audience not to shirk their responsibility: "we need ''effective'' solutions...only a free market can bring this kind of change about...who will advocate for these solutions?  If free market advocates shirk their responsibility, others will dictate the policy."<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=Our Changing Climate
|title=Scott Denning’s smashing presentation at Heartland climate conference ICCC6
|url=https://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/scott-denning-smashing-presentation-heartland-climate-conference-iccc6/
|accessdate=2011-08-14
|author=Bart Verheggen
|date=2011-08-13
}}</ref> <ref>Scott Denning, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111017192028/http://www.viddler.com/explore/heartland/videos/369/ Video of Scott Denning's June 2011 talk], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

=====Conference funding=====
======2009: Sponsors' main funder is Scaife======
An analysis of the 2009 conference sponsors' corporate-and-foundation funding revealed 78% was from the [[Scaife foundations]]<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=DeSmogBlog
|title=Heartland Institute's 2009 Climate Conference in New York: funding history of the sponsors
|url=http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors
|accessdate=2011-08-08
|quote=...these [sponsoring] organizations have received over $47 million from energy companies and right-wing foundations, with 78% of that total coming from the Scaife Family of foundations.
}}</ref> of [[Richard Mellon Scaife]].

===Water policy===

Heartland opposes the [[Great Lakes Water Resources Compact]], which was signed into affect in December of 2005 by the governors of eight states that border the great lakes, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, and the premiers of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. As of 2008, the compact was ratified by all of the eight state legislatures. The compact was proposed in light of the unprecedented low levels of water in the lakes, which are now at the bottom end of the historical fluctuation range of 4-6 feet. In order to mitigate diminishing water levels, The compact will limit the consumption of water from the Great Lakes to areas within these eight states, or to areas outside of the boundary only by petition subject to strict regulation. <ref>Council of Great Lakes Governors, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090801052441/http://www.cglg.org/projects/water/CompactImplementation.asp "Compact Implementation"], ''Archive.org website'' Accessed August 29, 2017. </ref> This new regulation also stemmed from proposals to ship water from the Great Lakes to other states like Arizona, or even out of the country into Asian water markets. <ref> Dennis Cauchon [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107211414/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-12-10-great-lakes-debate_x.htm "Great Lakes Compact at the Center of Great Debate"], ''USA Today'', December 10, 2006. </ref>

In a research and commentary report released in March of 2007, the Heartland Institute criticized the compact, claiming water should be regulated through the market rather than through the government. <ref name="Heartland Report">Heartland Institute, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090510155343/http://www.heartland.org/article/20851/The_Great_Lakes_Compact.html "The Great Lakes Compact"]. ''Heartland Institute website'', March 2007. </ref> In this report, Heartland, as is typical of a free market think tank, contends that water is a commodity just like other resources, and should thus be regulated through market mechanisms. The report cites [[Terry Anderson]], Director of the [[Property and Environment Research Center]], arguing that "water rights should be allocated and traded in the marketplace, even if that means shipping water to Asia at the right price. It's no different than shipping out cars or iron ore." <ref name="Heartland Report"/>

==About==
On its website Heartland states that, "The Heartland Institute is a nonprofit organization recognized as a tax-exempt charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We are nonpartisan and most of our work is strictly educational. We very rarely lobby, and when we do, we follow strict guidelines. We focus on issues in education, environmental protection, health care, budgets and taxes, and constitutional reform.<ref>Heartland Institute, [https://www.heartland.org/about-us/index.html About Us: What We Do], ''Heartland Institute Website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

===Founding===
The institute was founded in 1984 by [[David H. Padden]], now the President of [[Padco Lease]] Corporation, and [[Joseph L. Bast]], Heartland's President and CEO.<ref>Heartland Institute, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106145930/http://www.heartland.org/about/faqs.html "Q: What is the history of The Heartland Institute?"], Heartland Institute website, accessed February 2009.</ref>

: "Heartland grew out of David H. Padden’s [[Loop Libertarian League]], a group that met monthly at the Union League Club in downtown Chicago to discuss politics and philosophy. The idea was to create a think tank in Chicago that would emulate larger D.C. think tanks--national organizations that produce excellent original research. Today, we ... fill a unique niche in the free-market movement as the only think tank that directly markets free-market ideas to the nation’s legislators and opinion leaders."<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=The Heartland Institute
|title=26th Anniversary Benefit Dinner
|url=http://www.heartland.org/events/Benefit2010/
|accessdate=2011-04-02
|author=Joseph L. Bast
|date=Summer 2010
}}</ref>

===Nonprofit status===
The Institute is a 501(c)(3), EIN #363309812, ruling date 12/1984.[http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=363309812&Cobrandid=0]

==== A public charity, *barely* ====
Heartland barely misses being classed more restrictively as a private foundation - according to its 2009 Form 990, "public support" made up just 33% of contributions for 2009 and 36% for 2008. (The bulk of support would have come from large donors.)
(If public support falls below 33 1/3% for 2 years, it becomes a private foundation.)

====A no-show in Illinois nonprofits database====
The Institute did not appear in a mid-2011 search of the [http://www.ag.state.il.us/charities/disclaimer.html Illinois Attorney General's Charitable Database], for as yet unknown reasons.

===Audience and products===
====Main audience is lawmakers====
The Institute sees its primary audience as "the nation’s 8,300 state and national elected officials and approximately 8,400 local government officials."<ref name="2008AR"/>

====5 publications and a documents database====
For five of the Institute's priority policy areas, Heartland produces 20-page tabloid-sized monthly newspapers which are primarily distributed to elected officials, journalists and donors. (The five publications are ''Budget & Tax News'', ''[[Environment & Climate News]]'', ''Health Care News'', ''Infotech & Telecom News'' and ''School Reform News''.<ref name="2008AR"/> Heartland also hosts ''PolicyBot'', which it refers to as the "Internet's most extensive clearing-house for the work of free-market [[think tanks]]." The database contains 22,000 documents from 350 U.S. right-wing think tanks and advocacy groups.<ref>PolicyBot, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080605225513/http://www.heartland.org/policybot.cfm Search PolicyBot], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

Heartland's publications such as Health Care News publish three months after events, and rely on college students and other freelance writers to develop content and obtain data and expert quotes without oversight.{{fact}}

===Mission===
According to Heartland website, its mission is "to discover and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems".<ref>Joseph L. Bast, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630130937/http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10582 "Welcome to The Heartland Institute!"], Heartland Institute, April 13, 2007.</ref>  The Institute campaigns in support of:

* "Common-sense environmentalism", such as opposition to the the [[Kyoto Protocol]] aimed at countering global warming
*  Genetically engineered crops and products;
*  The privatization of public services;
*  The introduction of school vouchers; 
*  The deregulation of health care insurance;

and against:

*  What it refers to as "[[junk science]]" (science that that could indicate a need for regulation); 
*  Tobacco control measures such as tobacco tax increases (the Institute denies the adverse health effects of second-hand smoke); 

A version of its mission stated, current until 2006, stated that Heartland was "devoted to turning ideas into social movements that empower people". Another think tank link to Heartland used a slightly different version of its mission statement: "Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people."<ref>Institute of Public Affairs, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070703004031/http://www.ipa.org.au/links/index.asp "Links"], accessed March 2008.</ref>

In a statement submitted to the charity research group, Guidestar, Heartland states that "people devote time to learn about subjects only if they believe acquiring specific knowledge will benefit them personally. Often, this seems unlikely. Consequently, most people choose rationally to remain ignorant about many public policy issues. The Heartland Institute has overcome the problem of 'rational ignorance' by inventing publications busy elected officials and the public will actually read and come to trust. Our publications are highly effective and inexpensive vehicles for communicating messages on public policy." <ref>[http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=guidestar&npoId=262095 "Heartland Institute"], ''Guidestar.org'', accessed March 2008.</ref>

Heartland is holding its first [http://americafirstenergyconference.com/ '''America First Energy Conference'''] on November 9th, 2017. [http://americafirstenergyconference.com/]

==Lobbying==
In both 2011 and 2012, the Institute reported having lobbying expenditures. It spent $415,935 on lobbying in 2011, and it spent $350,348 on lobbying in 2012. <ref>ProPublica, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363309812 Heartland Institute, Forms 990 2011 & 2012], ''ProPublica website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

==Funding==

===Foundation funders===
RGF does not disclose its donors, but some of its funding sources are known through other tax filings. Heartland's known funders include:
*[[Charles G. Koch Foundation]]: [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations $25,000] (2011)
* [[Claude R. Lambe Foundation]]: [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations $10,000] (1998)
*[[DonorsTrust]] and [[Donors Capital Fund]]: [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients $7,182,150] (2010-2015)
*[[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation]] - [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Contributions_of_the_Bradley_Foundation $1,167,500] (1998-2013)
*Mercer Family Foundation: $500,000 (2009-2014)<ref>Conservative Transparency, [http://conservativetransparency.org/top/?recipient=29133&yr=2009&yr1=&yr2=2014&submit= Top Supporters of Heartland Institute], ''Conservative Transparency website'', Accessed August 28, 2017.</ref>

''Media Transparency'' lists Heartland as having received grants from a range of foundations between 1986 and 2009.  Of these foundations, by far the largest donor has been the foundation of Chicago industrialist [[Barre Seid]]<ref>Media Matters, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110427044706/http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Heartland_Institute/funders Recipients: Heartland Institute], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>, maker of Tripp Lite surge protectors.
* [[Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation]]: $1,037,977 	
* [[Walton Family Foundation]]: $400,000 	
* [[Sarah Scaife Foundation]]: $325,000 	
* [[Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust]]: $190,500 	
* [[Jaquelin Hume Foundation]]: $166,000 	
* [[Rodney Fund]]: $135,000 	
* [[JM Foundation]]: $82,000 	
* [[Castle Rock Foundation]]: $70,000 	
* [[Roe Foundation]]: $41,500 	
* [[John M. Olin Foundation]]: $40,000 	
* [[Armstrong Foundation]]: $30,000 	
* [[Hickory Foundation]] : $13,000 	
* [[Carthage Foundation]] : $10,000

===Exxon funding===

According to spokesman Jim Lakely, Heartland received $736,500 from Exxon Mobil between 1998 and 2006.<ref> Juliet Eilperin, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-skeptic-group-works-to-reverse-renewable-energy-mandates/2012/11/24/124faaa0-3517-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_print.html "Climate skeptic group works to reverse renewable energy mandates"], ''The Washington Post'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

Greenpeace's ''ExxonSecrets'' website lists some of these transactions.<ref>ExxonSecrets.org, [http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41 Factsheet: Heartland Institute, Heartland], ''ExxonSecrets.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> (As mentioned above, Heartland insists that Exxon has not contributed to the group since 2006.)<ref name="reply"/>

Exxon contributions include:
* $30,000 in 1998;
* $115,000 in 2000;
* $90,000 in 2001;
* $15,000 in 2002;
* $85,000 for General Operating Support and $7,500 for their 19th Anniversary Benefit Dinner in 2003;
* $85,000 for General Operating Support and $15,000 for Climate Change Efforts in 2004; and
* $119,000 in 2005; and
* $115,000 in 2006.

===Secrecy on funding sources===

While Heartland once disclosed its major supporters, it now refuses to publicly disclose who its corporate and foundation funders are. In response to an article criticizing the think tank for its secrecy, the group's President, [[Joseph Bast]], wrote in February 2005:

:"For many years, we provided a complete list of Heartland's corporate and foundation donors on this Web site and challenged other think tanks and advocacy groups to do the same. To our knowledge, not a single group followed our lead. However, critics who couldn’t or wouldn’t engage in fair debate over our ideas found the donor list a convenient place to find the names of unpopular companies or foundations, which they used in ad hominem attacks against us. Even reporters from time to time seemed to think reporting the identities of one or two donors--out of a list of hundreds--was a fair way of representing our funding or our motivation in taking the positions expressed in our publications. After much deliberation and with some regret, we now keep confidential the identities of all our donors."<ref name="Bast WiFi">Joseph Bast, [http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004765.html Response to "Sock Puppets of Industry"], ''Wi-Fi News'', February 1, 2005.</ref>

It has also claimed that "by not disclosing our donors, we keep the focus on the issue."<ref name="reply">Heartland Institute, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107063705/http://www.heartland.org/about/truthsquad.html "Reply to Our Critics"], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

===Funding base===
====Diverse funding base, reports Heartland====
According to Heartland,[http://www.heartland.org/about/truthsquad.html]
:"The following facts show that Heartland is not a “front group”:  ... Diverse funding base: Heartland has grown slowly over the years by cultivating a diverse base of donors who share its mission. Today it has approximately 2,000 supporters. In 2010 it received 48 percent of its income from foundations, 34 percent from corporations, and 14 percent from individuals. No corporate donor gave more than 5 percent of its annual budget."
=====Additional detail; funding source breakdown=====
Heartland stated that "in 2007 it received 71 percent of its income from foundations, 16 percent from corporations, and 11 percent from individuals. No corporate donor gave more than 5 percent of its annual budget ... ExxonMobil has not contributed to Heartland since 2006. Indeed, gifts from all energy companies - coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear - combined did not exceed 5 percent of Heartland’s budget in 2007."<ref name="reply"/> (Heartland states that its 2007 revenue was approximately $5.2 million.<ref name="reply"/> Based on this Heartland statement, in 2007 foundations provided approximately $3.69 million, corporations contributed $832,000 and approximately 1,600 individuals<ref>Joseph L. Bast, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090709212444/http://www.heartland.org/about/ "Welcome to the Heartland Institute"], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> Energy companies -- "coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear" -- contributed approximately 5% or around $260,000.)

====Unbalanced; 35% to 58% of support from just one donor====

A single donor provided 35% of Heartland's revenue in 2009 and 58% in 2008<ref>Heartland Institute,
 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112153427/http://apps.sos.wv.gov/business/charities/readpdf.aspx?DocID=124014 Audited Financial Statements: Year Ended December 31, 2009 and 2008], ''Archive.org website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>, and 38% in 2007.<ref>ProPublica, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363309812  2007 Form 990], ''ProPublica website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

====Donations of software, source TBD====
Heartland's 2009 Form 990 reports over $120,000 in donations of software, apparently from a single source.<ref>ProPublica, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363309812  2009 Form 990], ''ProPublica website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

====Corporate sponsorship options, and perks====
In its 2008 annual report to supporters, Heartland outlines that corporate sponsorships start out at $10,000, with the next rung up being "silver" sponsors which contribute $25,000, "gold" sponsors donating $50,000 and "platinum" sponsors kicking in $100,000.<ref name="2008AR">Heartland Institute. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022202748/http://www.heartland.org/about/PDFs/HeartlandProspectus.pdf Heartland Institute 2008 Prospectus], Heartland Institute.</ref>
=====Independent, or a lobby shop?=====
Heartland's 1999 letter said benefits of Platinum and Gold sponsorship included "special consideration of documents for promotion via ''PolicyFax''", and "attention to issues of special concern in ''Intellectual Ammunition'' and other publications"[http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yiv90h00/pdf (page 8+)] - which, given Heartland's announced primary audience of legislators, would seem to amount to lobbying.

===1999 funders internal data===
A June 1999 Heartland document [http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/yiv90h00/pdf (page 8+)]  in the Tobacco Archives lists Heartland's then-recent corporate, foundation and individual donors, and, for the highest spenders, roughly how much they gave.

Among the Platinum Sponsors were the [[D & D Foundation]], [[Philip Morris]], [[Procter & Gamble]], and the [[Barre Seid Foundation]].  Gold sponsors included the [[American Petroleum Institute]] and the [[Bradley Foundation]].

===Support for Heartland Institute===
In May 2012, DeSmog Blog reported that the [[Heartland Institute]] had added the Illinois Coal Association (ICA) as a new "Gold Sponsor" for its 2012 [[ICCC]]-7 climate conference. ICA joined following the Heartland's leaked documents and Unabomber billboard campaign. In Heartland's leaked 2012 Fundraising plan, [[Murray Energy]] gave $100,000 in 2010 and was expected to give $40,000 in 2012; the company's subsidiary, The American Coal Company, is a member of the ICA.<ref>John Mashey, [https://www.desmogblog.com/illinois-coal-association-emerges-heartland-denial-palooza-sponsor Illinois Coal Association Emerges As Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsor], ''Desmogblog'', May 14, 2012.</ref>

Phil Gonet, the chief lobbyist for ICA, said of the support for Heartland, "We support the work they are doing and so we thought we would finally make a contribution to the organization ... I made a contribution mainly in support of a conference that is designed to make balanced information available to the public on the issue of global warming ... In general, the message of the Heartland Institute is something the Illinois Coal Association supports."<ref>Suzanne Goldenberg, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/20/heartland-institute-future-staff-cash Heartland Institute facing uncertain future as staff depart and cash dries up], ''The Guardian'', May 20, 2012.</ref>

==Heartland funds flow to NZ, Intl Climate Science Coalitions==
In 2007, Heartland gave $25,000 to the [[New Zealand Climate Science Coalition]] and $45,000 to the [[International Climate Science Coalition]].  
===Likely this funding continues; but the orgs' identities aren't provided===
Heartland has likely continued to fund these groups; Heartland's Form 990s report it is still giving money to unnamed organizations outside the U.S.<ref>ProPublica, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363309812  2008 Form 990], ''ProPublica website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>, and the 2009 990 identifies the donees' region as "East Asia and the Pacific"<ref name="2009 990 Form">ProPublica, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363309812  2009 Form 990], ''ProPublica website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> but it too leaves the "name" field blank.  (It's not clear whether Heartland monitors how these groups spend the money: according to the 990 "the organization [Heartland] is "friends of" the grant recipients therefore no major tracking is necessary"<ref name="2009 990 Form"/>

==Core Financials==
'''<big>2017</big>'''<ref name="2017 990">Heartland Institute, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6007271-Heartland-Institute-2017-990.html 2017 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, June 21, 2018, p. 1.</ref><br>
* Total Revenue: $5,994,969
* Total Expenses: $5,471,048
* Net Assets: $1,541,278

'''<big>2016</big>'''<ref name="2016 990">Heartland Institute, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6007270-Heartland-Institute-2016-990.html 2016 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, August 24, 2017, p. 1.</ref><br>
* Total Revenue: $5,480,656
* Total Expenses: $5,524,414
* Net Assets: $1,017,357

'''<big>2015</big>'''<ref name="2015 990">Heartland Institute, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6007269-Heartland-Institute-2015-990.html 2015 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, August 4, 2016, p. 1.</ref><br>
* Total Revenue: $4,398,175
* Total Expenses: $5,770,366
* Net Assets: $1,061,115

'''<big>2014</big>'''<ref name="2014 990">Heartland Institute, [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6007268-Heartland-Institute-2014-990.html 2014 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, June 30, 2015, p. 1.</ref><br>
* Total Revenue: $6,738,428
* Total Expenses: $4,393,358
* Net Assets: $2,433,306

'''<big>2013</big>'''<ref name="2013 990">Heartland Institute, [http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/363/309/2013-363309812-0a57aff0-9.pdf 2013 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, April 24, 2014 p. 1.</ref><br>
* Total Revenue: $4,783,310
* Total Expenses: $4,422,355
* Net Assets: $88,236

'''<big>2012</big>'''<ref name="2013 990"/><br>
* Total Revenue: $5,329,115
* Total Expenses: $5,444,312
* Net Assets: -$272,719

==Personnel==
As of May 2019:

'''Staff'''<ref> Heartland Institute, [https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/?type=staff Who We Are: Staff], ''Heartland Institute website'', Accessed May 2019.</ref>

*Billy Aouste, New Media Specialist
*Joe Barnett, Research Fellow and Managing Editor
*Tim Benson, Policy Analyst 
*H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow and Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News
*Gwendalyn Carver, Director of Development
*Nikki Comerford, Associate Publisher and Events Manager
*Wanda L. Davis, Executive Vice President
*Joseph Davis, Librarian
*Keely Drukala, Deputy Director of Communications
*Matthew Glans, Senior Policy Analyst
*Bette Grande, Research Fellow
*Justin Haskins, Executive Editor and Research Fellow
*Christina Herrin, Campaign Manager, Free to Choose Medicine
*Robert G. Holland, Senior Fellow, Education
*Edward Hudgins, Research Director
*Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., President
*George Jamerson, Director of Government Relations
*Lennie Jarratt, Project Manager, Center for Transforming Education
*S.T. Karnick, Director of Publications
*Donny Kendal, Graphic Designer
*Jim Lakely, Communications Director
*Kevin Leonard, Creative Director
*Latreece Reed, Vice President of Administration
*AnneMarie Schieber, Research Fellow and Managing Editor
*Andy Singer, New Media Specialist
*Aaron D. Stover, Director of Federal Government/Corporate Relations
*Lindsey Stroud, State Government Relations Manager
*Christopher Talgo, Editor
*James Taylor, Senior Fellow, Environment and Energy Policy
*Scott Walsh, Foundation Manager
*Anthony Watts, Senior Fellow
*Arianna Wilkerson, State Government Relations Manager

'''Former Staff'''
*Diane Bast, Executive Editor and Finance Manager
*Joseph Bast, CEO
*Peter Ferrara, Senior Fellow, Entitlement and Budget Policy
*Veronica Harrison, Marketing Manager
*Jesse Hathaway, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Budget & Tax News
*Jay Lehr, Science Director
*Teresa Mull, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, School Reform News
*John Nothdurft, Director of Government Relations
*Isaac Orr, Research Fellow
*Frederick D. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate
*Latreece Reed, Executive Vice President

'''Board of Directors''' <ref>Heartland Institute, [https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/?page=1&type=board-directors&q=&view=20 Who We Are: Board of Directors], ''Heartland Institute website'', Accessed May 2019.</ref>
*William S. Armistead, Duluth, Georgia
*[[Joseph Bast]], Director and Senior Fellow
*[[Robert J. Buford]], Chicago, Illinois
*[[Jeré C. Fabick]], Milwaukee, Wisconsin
*Paul Fisher, Senior Fellow, Legal Affairs
*[[Dan Hales]], Winnetka, Illinois
*Tim Huelskamp, President
*[[James L. Johnston]], Senior Fellow, Economic Policy
*Jeffrey Madden, Chicago, Illinois
*Harley Moody, Corpus Christi, Texas
*[[Arthur B. Robinson]], Senior Fellow and Cofounder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
*[[Brian Singer]], Chicago, Illinois
*Hilary Till, Principal of Premia Risk Consultancy

'''Former Directors'''
*[[Chuck Lang]], Indianapolis, Indiana
*[[Jeffrey Madden]], Chicago, Illinois
*[[Herbert J. Walberg]], Senior Fellow, Education

'''Policy Experts''' (Pages 1-55) <ref>Heartland Institute, [https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/?type=policy-experts Who We Are: Policy Experts], ''Heartland Institute website'', Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref>

==="Global warming experts"===
''See Heartland's "global warming experts" list at [[Heartland Institute/Global warming experts]].''

(As a group, [[Heartland Institute/Global warming experts |"Global warming experts"]] who minimize the risks of climate change have less expertise than those who don't.<ref>{{cite web
|publisher=Skeptical Science
|title=How many climate scientists are climate skeptics?
|url=http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-many-climate-scientists-are-climate-skeptics.html
|accessdate=2011-04-03
|author=John Cook
|date=2010-06-22
}}</ref>)

The Heartland Institute's Environmental "expert," [[James M. Taylor]],  is a lawyer based in Florida. Despite presenting a veneer of scientific expertise in their Environmental advocacy, the Heartland lacks any{{fact}} scientists trained to understand climate issues.

==Contact Information==
Employer Identification Number (EIN): 36-3309812

The Heartland Institute<br>
3939 North Wilke Road<br>
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004<br>
Phone: 312-377-4000<br>
Fax: 312-277-4122<br>
Web: https://heartland.org/<br>
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeartlandInstitute<br>
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartlandinst<br>

==Publications==
*[[Budget & Tax News]]
*[[Environment & Climate News]]<br> 
*[[Health Care News]]<br> 
*[[Info Tech and Telecom News]]
*[[School Reform News]]<br> 
*[[The Heartlander]]<br> 
*[[Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly]]<br> 
*[[News & Views]]<br> 
*[[Policy Studies]]<br> 
*[[Perspectives]]<br>

===Former Publications===
*[[Intellectual Ammunition]]<br>

==Articles and resources==
===IRS Form 990 Filings===
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===References===
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===Related SourceWatch articles===
*[[Heartland Institute and tobacco]]
*[[Heartland Institute personnel]]
*[[Heartland Institute/Global warming experts]]
*[[Joseph L. Bast]]
*[[David H. Padden]]
*[[International Conference on Climate Change (2009)]]
*[[The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change]]
*[[Think tanks]]

===External resources===
* [http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Heartland_Institute/funders Media Matters funding info]
* [http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=363309812&Cobrandid=0 IRS Form 990 filings] from the Economic Research Institute

===External articles===
* Steve Horn, [http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-manifestation-kochtopus-empire "Heartland Institute: A Manifestation of the Kochtopus Empire,"] Desmog Blog, March 1, 2012.
* Glenn Fleishman, "[http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004776.html Sock Puppets Disappoint]," ''Wi-Fi Networking News'', February 3, 2005, criticizes Heartland for making "strawman arguments" and distorting facts in its report opposing municipal wi-fi networks.
* Karl Bode, "[http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/59840 Municipal Report: Heartland Institute Hackery], ''DSLReports.com'', February 3, 2005, discusses Heartlands role in opposing municipal wi-fi networks, calling it a "public relations war on your community's right to wire itself if nobody else will. Not because they truly believe in protecting the consumer or the taxpayer, but because these efforts pose a financial threat to their clients should competition emerge."
* John Stauber, [https://www.prwatch.org/node/4800 Food Flack Nation Attacks Journalist Eric Schlosser], ''PRWatch'', May 11, 2006.
* Kevin Grandia, [http://www.desmogblog.com/research-sponsors-behind-heartlands-new-york-climate-change-conference "Research on the "sponsors" behind the Heartland's New York Climate Change Conference"], ''DeSmog Blog'', February 24, 2009.

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