by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That You have to wonder what he’s got in those emails to be fighting so hard to keep people from seeing the supposedly mundane details of research. Prince William FOIA case on global warming headed for Virginia Supreme Court The fight by a conservative legal group and Del. Robert [...]
by Tom Jackman Washington Post The fight by a conservative legal group and Del. Robert Marshall (R-Prince William) to obtain the e-mails written by leading climate change scientist Michael E. Mann while he was at the University of Virginia was shot down by a judge in Prince William County last year. But Marshall and the legal group appealed, and [...]
by Patrick McNamara Arizona Daily Star A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group has sued the University of Arizona demanding the release of a cache of documents — including two professors’ emails — related to climate change and global warming. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute, which until recently was known as the American Tradition Institute, first [...]
For Immediate Release: October 3, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, [email protected] Introducing The Energy & Environment Legal Institute Board of Directors Votes to Change Name from The American Tradition Institute (ATI) Washington, D.C. - The Board of Directors recently voted to change the name of the American Tradition Institute (ATI) to The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E [...]
by Tom Tanton, Director of Science and Technology Assessment Stockton Record Last week marked the end of the 2013 legislative session. Despite the annual ritual of political gamesmanship, party leaders actually came together in a rare act of solidarity to oppose a controversial energy policy being implemented by the Obama Administration. As I testified to Congress [...]
by Bryan McKenzie The Daily Progress Efforts by a conservative group to gain access to data and emails used by a former University of Virginia researcher who studied climate change could change legal interpretations of the state’s freedom of information laws. The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by The American Tradition [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Tradition Institute (ATI) joined the American Energy Alliance (AEA) and 12 other free market organizations in sending a letter today to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources which called on committee members to oppose the confirmation of Ron Binz as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Citing "grave concerns" [...]
For Immediate Release – September 10, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute [email protected] ATI Files Suit to Compel the University of Arizona to Produce Records Related to So-Called “Hockey Stick” Global Warming Research On Friday, September 6th, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), a non-profit public policy organization, along with counsel from the [...]
by Ron Arnold Washington Examiner There they go again. “The Environmental Protection Agency has been caught placing hurdles in the path of groups it views as hostile or inconvenient to its agenda,” veteran Freedom of Information Act hurdle-jumping attorney Chris Horner told me this week. Read more
Guest commentary by Greg Walcher, Board Member and Senior Fellow Denver Post Voltaire once wrote that "men argue; nature acts." We are seeing that action in catastrophic forest fires across the western United States, while land managers, politicians, lobbyists, foresters and environmentalists continue to argue. We watch the news about these unprecedented wildfires burning forests [...]
