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company Heartland Institute
position President and CEO
industry Front Group
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1976-1984: undergraduate, University of Chicago (incomplete degree)
1984-1994: Co-...

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Joseph Bast

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Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco, Heartland Stooge or Calculated Climate Denier?
06/20/2012 - 19:14

Dan DiMicco (picture right), CEO of Nucor, recently sent a letter to a concerned shareholder defending Nucor's support of the Heartland Institute. The letter contained numerous talking points commonly used by Heartland's campaign of climate science denial, and revealed DiMicco to be either pitifully ignorant of the state of climate change science, or a calculating executive willing to misinform his own shareholders.
Nucor CEO Dan Dimicco stands by the Heartland Institute and denies his climate denial
06/15/2012 - 14:59

Climate change denial is a set of organized attempts to downplay, deny or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming, its significance, and its connection to human behavior, especially for commercial or ideological reasons. Source: Wikipedia
Nucor’s Hypocrisy: Funding The Heartland Institute's Attacks on Climate Change Science
05/29/2012 - 09:45

Nucor, the largest producer of steel in the U.S., takes great pains to present a “green” image.  Nucor's website is full of oak trees and pastoral scenes next to the tag line “Nucor: It’s Our Nature.”
More corporate funders drop the anti-science Heartland Institute, Including Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Verizon, and CUNA
05/24/2012 - 12:59

UPDATE: Statement from Forecast the Facts added below (click here to see)
The Heartland Institute’s 7th Climate denial-palooza, fewer attendees, more fringe conspiracy theories
05/23/2012 - 12:44

Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations
05/22/2012 - 11:24

Written by Brendan DeMelle, crossposted from DeSmogBlog.

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