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General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real, Pulls Support From 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. The automaker told the Heartland Institute last week that it won’t be making further donations, spokesman Greg Martin said. At a speech earlier this month, GM CEO Dan Akerson said his company is running its business under the assumption that climate change is real. “We applaud GM’s decision and the message it sends — that it is no longer acceptable for corporations to promote the denial of climate change and that support for an organization like Heartland is not in line with GM’s values,” said Daniel Souweine, campaign director for Forecast the Facts, a group that urges meteorologists to talk more openly about climate change. Internal documents leaked in February showed that the General Motors Foundation — which the automaker runs separately from its business — donated to the institute $15,000 in 2010 and again in 2011, with another $15,000 expected to be gifted this year. More…

News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: General Motors | Source: Huffington Post

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