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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

company Heartland Institute

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status “A third truth I’ve discovered is that we will never run out of fossil fuels.”

Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco, Heartland Stooge or Calculated Climate Denier?

20 June 2012

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

15 June 2012

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

29 May 2012

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.”