H. John Heinz III
The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, was a nonpartisan nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington D.C. The Center brought together representatives of business, government, the scientific community and the environment community to collaborate on the development of environmental policy and science-based solutions to environmental challenges to society. The Heinz Center is best known as the creator of the "State of the Nation's Ecosystems" reports, which have become seminal references for U.S. policy makers and environmental managers on the conditions of and trends in U.S. ecosystems and habitats and the goods and services they provide. The Center was founded in 1995, in tribute to U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania after his untimely death in 1991 and closed in 2013.