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==News and Controversies==
===Heritage Foundation Called Out for Blocking Action on Climate Change===
In July of 2016, nineteen U.S. Senators delivered a series of speeches denouncing climate change denial from 32 organizations with links to fossil-fuel interests, including the Heritage Foundation.<ref name="sw">Sheldon Whitehouse, "[https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senators-call-out-web-of-denial-blocking-action-on-climate-change Senators Call Out Web of Denial Blocking Action On Climate Change]," ''Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse'', July 15, 2016.</ref> Sen. Whitehouse (RI-D), who led the effort to expose "the web of denial" said in his remarks on the floor that the purpose was to,
:"shine a little light on the web of climate denial and spotlight the bad actors in the web, who are polluting our American discourse with phony climate denial. This web of denial, formed over decades, has been built and provisioned by the deep-pocketed [[Koch brothers]], by [[ExxonMobil]], by [[Peabody coal]], and by other fossil fuel interests. It is a grim shadow over our democracy in that it includes an electioneering effort that spends hundreds of millions of dollars in a single election cycle and threatens any Republican who steps up to address the global threat of climate change. . . . [I]t is long past time we shed some light on the perpetrators of this web of denial and expose their filthy grip on our political process. It is a disgrace, and our grandchildren will look back at this as a dirty time in America’s political history because of their work.”<ref name="sw"/>
===Heritage Action for America Draws Criticism===
The political advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, [[Heritage Action for America]], was founded in April 2010. In an op-ed, [[Edwin J. Feulner]] and [[Michael A. Needham]] wrote that Heritage Action was formed "to spend money to push legislation […] without the obstacles faced by a nonprofit like the Heritage Foundation."<ref>Edwin J. Feulner and Michael A. Needham, "[http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304222504575173850070877846 New Fangs for the Conservative 'Beast']," ''Wall Street Journal'', April 12, 2010. Accessed June 10, 2014.</ref> According to reporting by ''The New Republic'', some former Heritage staffers feel that Heritage Action and its political work have come to drive the Heritage Foundation, rather than being subordinate to it.<ref name="new republic"/>
