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R Street Institute
The R Street Institute is an American conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered Washington, D.C.. The Institute's stated mission is to “engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government.”〔Self-description on (Why R Street? )〕 R Street was established in 2012 when its founders split from the Heartland Institute out of disagreement with Heartland's public denial of the scientific opinion on climate change. In addition to its Washington headquarters, R Street has branch offices in Tallahassee, Florida; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.〔Graves, Lucia ("Heartland Institute's Insurance Project To Depart After Controversial Billboard Campaign " ), ''Huffington Post'', 05/11/2012.〕
==Formation==
On May 4, 2012, the Heartland Institute launched a digital billboard ad campaign in the Chicago area featuring a photo of Ted Kaczynski, (the "Unabomber"), and asking the question, “I still believe in global warming, do you?”〔(Climate wars heat up with pulled Unabomber billboards ) May 04, 2012〕 The Institute planned for the campaign to later feature cult leader Charles Manson, communist leader Fidel Castro and perhaps Osama bin Laden, asking the same question. In a statement, the Institute justified the billboards saying "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."〔Samenow, Jason, ("Heartland Institute launches campaign linking terrorism, murder, and global warming belief" ), ''Washington Post'', 05/04/2012.〕 Facing public backlash to the billboards, Heartland canceled the campaign within 24 hours.
Leadership of Heartland’s Washington-based Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, whose work often had been entwined with environmental policies, were quoted in the wake of the billboard campaign noting that they only learned of the campaign from an emailed press release and that it reflected poorly on the center.〔Lehmann, Evan ("Heartland faces a mutiny amid furor over billboard campaign" ), ClimateWire, 05/07/2012.〕 On May 11, 2012, Heartland announced that the center would spin off into a separate organization, effective May 31.〔Graves, Lucia ("Heartland Institute's Insurance Project To Depart After Controversial Billboard Campaign " ), ''Huffington Post'', 05/11/2012.〕
On May 14, 2012, ''Slate'' reported that the spin-off group would be dubbed the R Street Institute and quoted spokesman R.J. Lehmann as noting that, unlike Heartland, R Street “will not promote climate change skepticism.”〔Weigel, David ("Climate Change Believers Split from Heartland Institute" ), Slate, 05/14/2012〕 Following R Street’s break from Heartland, climate activist group Forecast the Facts estimated that roughly $1.3 million of Heartland’s proposed $2.3 million in projected corporate funding had been withdrawn from the institute, as donors Pfizer, Amgen, LKQ, Credit Union National Association, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Verizon, the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, BB&T, PepsiCo, Farmers Insurance Group, Eli Lilly, USAA, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., RenaissanceRe, XL Group, Allied World Assurance Co., State Farm, Diageo, ABIR and General Motors all either pulled their sponsorships or announced that they would not support Heartland in the future.〔Forecast the Facts, ("Heartland's 2012 Funding: Fading Quickly" )〕
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