American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

The American Enterprise Institute is a member of the State Policy Network.

A Wall Street Journal oped by AEI fellow Steven F Hayward, who is associated with numerous other Koch-funded organizations such as the Pacific Research Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the Heritage Foundation and the Property and Environment Research Center.

AEI’s Ken Green infamously offered $10,000 (along with travel and lodging expenses) to any scientist willing to undermine a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

AEI was criticized in 2012 by climate science deniers at the Heartland Institute for convening a secret meeting on a carbon tax featuring organizations that have no role in denying climate science, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Citizen. It is unclear if this indicates a shift away from AEI’s historic public relations campaign against climate science and global warming policy.