{"id":6611,"date":"2012-04-03T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T11:06:38","slug":"general-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/04\/03\/general-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real, Pulls Support From Heartland Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/30\/general-motors-heartland-institute-climate-change_n_1391217.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6612\" title=\"General Motors Decides Climate Change Is Real, Pulls Support From Heartland Institute \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/120403_gm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>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&#8217;t be  making further donations, spokesman Greg Martin said.  At a speech <a href=\"http:\/\/climate-one.org\/video\/gm-and-heartland-institute\" target=\"_hplink\">earlier this month<\/a>, GM CEO Dan Akerson said his company is running its business under the assumption that climate change is real. &#8220;We applaud GM&#8217;s decision and the message it sends &#8212; 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&#8217;s values,&#8221; said Daniel Souweine, campaign director for  Forecast the Facts, a group that urges meteorologists to talk more  openly about climate change. Internal documents <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1-15-2012-2012-Fundraising-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">leaked in February<\/a> showed that the General Motors Foundation &#8212; which the automaker runs  separately from its business &#8212; donated to the institute $15,000 in 2010  and again in 2011, with another $15,000 expected to be gifted this  year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/30\/general-motors-heartland-institute-climate-change_n_1391217.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: General Motors | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/30\/general-motors-heartland-institute-climate-change_n_1391217.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t be making further donations, spokesman Greg Martin said. At a speech earlier this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}