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Donny Kendal, with the help of Director of Communications Jim Lakely and State Government Relations Manager Charlie Katebi, presents episode #152 of the In The Tank Podcast.

Donny Kendal, Jim Lakely and Charlie Katebi present episode #147 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Pacific Research Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Civitas Institute.

John and Donny are joined by Heartland Director of Communications Jim Lakely in episode #46 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Heartland Institute, the Center for American Progress, and the Commonwealth Foundation.

Top officials at the EPA collaborated with progressive think tank, the Center for American Progress, to help control a media portrayal of the EPA’s Carbon Capture and Sequestration technology, after a New York Times reporter discovered the technology didn’t work.

Democrats have decided to lean-in, not back-away, from so-called clean energy. Despite the embarrassing history of government-funded green-energy failures, “wealthy environmentalists are pushing Democrats to take bolder positions on climate change”—and global warming, as an issue, provides the impetus for more green-energy spending.

The Boston Globe reported on a recent “summit between Washington’s liberal elite and San Francisco’s climate intelligensia” that included “Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, six other senators, and … Al Gore.” The Globe points to new efforts by Democrats to “make global warming a central issue during the midterms.”

The ObamaCare approach is far too clumsy to be effective in empowering consumers.

[First posted at Forbes.] The year 2012 is breaking all-time records for lack of tornado activity, inviting the question whether global warming is causing a long-term decline in destructive extreme…

The Center for American Progress promises to put on its website the audio of its conference call Thursday titled ““Climate Deniers Congregate in the Nation’s Capital.” As I mentioned last week,…