In the News Climate skeptics, seeing rising prospects for a carbon tax, vow to make it ‘toxic’
Eli Lehrer, who is the president of R Street Institute and has worked at both CEI and the Heartland Institute, said his group is largely funded by insurance companies and other non-environmental donors — often the same contributors that funded him at CEI.
“I know this since I raised the money at both places,” Lehrer said. “So if my funding stream makes me a front group, then by that logic, CEI is, too. It’s just ridiculous.”
