Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers

“I want to give you just a few points to keep in mind when this topic comes up so you understand,” Heartland Institute President James Taylor told state lawmakers and others who had gathered in Indianapolis for the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) 52nd annual meeting last summer, “the climate crisis simply does not exist.” Attacking the conclusions of climate science is hardly new for the Heartland Institute, which in 2012 ran a brief but notorious billboard campaign that depicted Unabomber Ted Kaczynski with the caption “I still believe in global warming. Do you?” But Taylor’s speech at an ALEC…