Joe Bast
Director and Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute
Joseph Bast is a Director and Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute. He cofounded Heartland in 1984, serving as executive director then as president & CEO until January 2018. His research and writing focuses on climate change and energy policy.
Latest posts by Joe Bast (see all)
- No, Beto, There is No Impending Climate Refugee Crisis - April 10, 2019
- Teachers and Students at a Colorado Middle School React to ‘Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming’ - April 6, 2018
- The Good, the Bad, and the Missed Opportunities of the ‘Climate Science Tutorial’ in San Francisco - March 24, 2018
For the past three years, The Heartland Institute has been promoting a “pro-energy, pro-environment, and pro-jobs” agenda in countless meetings with elected officials, on web posts, and in publications. The latest variation of it appears on the inside back cover of our quarterly newsletter (QPR), released just this week.
So it is very gratifying to see this tweet from the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency:
This is what freedom rising looks like, my friends!
We’ve asked Mr. Pruitt to speak at the 12th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-12) on March 23-24 and are waiting to hear back from his office. Fingers crossed!
