US EPA Chief to Headline Event by Group That Says There’s No Climate Crisis | Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator, will address a Heartland Institute forum in April. The organization says speakers will challenge the climate crisis “narrative.”
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For those who don’t recognize the Heartland Institute, it was created to meet the shared need of the fossil fuels and tobacco industries to avoid the inconvenient science pointing to the harms of their products. The first generation of climate denial PR folks were all ones who had cut their teeth by pushing the false notion that cigarette smoke doesn’t cause cancer.