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Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He is the author of eight books, a researcher and editor of ten books, and columnist for the Washington Examiner.

Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He is the author of eight books, a researcher and editor of ten books, and columnist for the Washington Examiner. His pioneering work on exposing the left’s funding, displayed in the Undue Influence website, led to invitations to testify before congressional committees, resulting in a congressional investigation into the left’s funding irregularities.

Arnold’s weekly Washington Examiner columns have been cited as authoritative in U.S. Senate hearings and the Congressional Record.

Recent Articles and Publications

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February 9, 2017
Natural Resources Defense Council: The Scaremongering Chemophobe-in-Chief
By Ron Arnold
The Natural Resources Defense Council is one of the largest, most politically influential environmental scaremongering groups pushing bans on modern chemicals and fossil fuel use.
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December 7, 2016
Environmental Working Group Undermines Public Health, Good Government
By Ron Arnold
The Environmental Working Group is an activist organization that stokes unwarranted fears of modern agriculture, chemicals, and some medical technology.
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Hillary Clinton Climate Change
October 26, 2016
Was Hillary’s Secret Plan to Attack Climate Skeptics Exposed by Wikileaks?
By Ron Arnold
The Wikileaks emails revealed a $3 million plan to attack the Wall Street Journal and Fox News Channel to put them ‘on the defensive’ about their realistic climate stand.
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October 17, 2016
The Climate Action Network: Funding Climate Alarmist Stunts Around the World
By Ron Arnold
Climate Action Network International and its U.S. subsidiary, the U.S. Climate Action Network, are climate-alarmist coordination centers with unique access to climate negotiations and an outsized influence on climate policies.
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August 26, 2015
The Books That Begat ‘Big Green’
By Paul Driessen, Ron Arnold
A handful of doomsaying bestsellers has made possible today's politically powerful environmental movement.
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2016 By the Numbers

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45% of elected officials say Heartland led to a change in policy
45%
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The Economist
May 26, 2012
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120 events
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100,000 fans
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