MDN has been closely following the fiasco at Heinz Endowments as purists there apparently reassert control after an errant effort at reasonableness. This compendium of three MDN stories lays it out.

Anti-drillers have been nervous that one of the big-money spigots for funding their so-called research into the dangers of fracking was about to be shut off. In an on-going soap opera that began a couple of months ago, the “longtime head” of environmental grant making for the Heinz Endowments, Caren Glotfelty, was first shown the door. A number of anti-drilling studies had been funded by Glotfelty during her tenure at Heinz. Bobby Vagt, president of Heinz Enowments, announced he would fill in for Glotfelty until a replacement is found. Vagt, was involved with the controversial Center for Sustainable Shale Development. It was also disclosed that Vagt sat on the board of natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan.

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