Friday, March 30, 2012

General motors heartland institute

  • After getting called out by an environmental group, General Motors has pulled support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit well known for attacking the science behind global warming and climate change.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The GM-Heartland connection came to light when internal Heartland documents were leaked by the Pacific Institutes Peter Gleick. From them, we learned that the General Motors Foundation (GMs charitable arm) made a $15,000 donation in 2011.
  • (autoblog)
  • Now, an environmental group says it has collected 10,000 signatures urging the automaker to stop funding the Chicago-based Heartland Institute.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • It shows Dan Akerson, CEO of General Motors, fawning has tried to push misinformation about climate science into our public schools, the Heartland Institute.
  • (Daily Telegraph Blogs)
  • General Motors Co.
  • (Lansing State Journal)
  • climate denying scandal is that the General Motors has donated, through its GM Foundation, $30,000 over the past two years to the Heartland Institute.
  • (OpEdNews.com)
  • One of the revelations from the Heartland Institute debacle was the the Big Three carmaker General Motors was donating cash to the climate change-denying think tank.
  • (Tree Hugger)
  • Treehugger reports that 10,000 General Motors customers, and another 20,000 citizens have signed a petition to urge the company to stop funding the Heartland Institute, due to that organization's position of climate change denial.
  • (Triple Pundit)

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