Edwin Feulner is one of the three founders of the Heritage Foundation. He was the president of the Heritage Foundation until he retired in 2013 and was succeeded by James DeMint. He also served as interim president in 2017. In recent years, Feulner has stayed involved in national politics by serving as head of domestic policy for the Trump administration, in which he helped create policy for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture.
Feulner has commented on climate change, calling the future trajectories made by climatologists “Chicken Little claims.” He has also said that the “rest of us shouldn’t have to pay for [the doomsayers’ pessimism].” He was deeply against the Paris Climate Agreement, and he called withdrawing from it a “welcome decision from Trump and a commonsense approach that helps the American people and businesses.” He continued, saying that the Paris Agreement was “by all accounts a rotten deal” and that “Heritage experts have long been ringing the alarm bell of the damaging effects staying in the Paris Climate Agreement would have on our economy.” In an earlier article, he called the Agreement a “sham deal,” and said that “no amount of pretense or diplomatic wrangling will change that.”
In addition to the Heritage Foundation, Feulner also served as director of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Thomas A. Roe Foundation, the Acton Institute, the International Republican Institute, and the Council for National Policy, as well as serving as a member and advisor on other boards and councils.
See Also:
James DeMint
Climate of Denial