by Julie A. Seymour NewsBusters A group seeking access to climate scientist Michael Mann’s emails through Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) has a surprising new group of news media allies. From wire agencies to liberal Atlantic Media, Inc., 17 news groups have supported the release of documents, according to Columbia Journalism Review. “Organized by [...]
Investor's Daily Business Editorial Junk Science: More than a dozen news organizations want to see the emails of global warm-monger Michael Mann to see what the creator of the hockey stick graph has been saying in private. This is a noteworthy turn of events. Mann is the Penn State climate scientist who in the late [...]
by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That? Get this: 17 news organizations, including NPR, WaPo, AP, now have grown a spine and filed an amicus brief (see download below) to OPPOSE in court Michael Mann’s effort to keep his UVa CLIMATEGATE-related e-mails secret. Basically, Mann’s attempt at hiding his emails of work done on public [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] Washington, D.C. -- On April 1, 2014, the National Academy of Sciences and George Washington University Law School will focus a full day seminar on E&E Legal’s litigation against the University of Virginia, brought under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Entitled “The Tension Between Academic [...]
by Michael Steyn SteynOnline You don't have to be sued by Michael E Mann to have a certain antipathy toward him. It's been fascinating to discover how many people there are who believe in "anthropogenic global warming" and believe in climate science but really, strongly dislike Mann, his methods, and his promotion of himself as [...]
by Mark Steyn SteynOnline Julie Burchill, my old boss at The Modern Review many years ago, has a bracing column in this week's Speccie on the difference between the left she grew up with and the left today: While working-class left-wing political activism was always about fighting the powerful, treating people how you would wish [...]
For Immediate Release January 7, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson 202-758-8301 [email protected] On Thursday, January 9, 2014, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in ATI v. UVA. In January 2011, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), under its old name, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), filed a FOIA request with the University [...]
For Immediate Release: November 14, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, [email protected] Washington, D.C. -- Today, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Brief of Appellant with the Virginia Supreme Court against the University of Virginia (UVA) for their failure to release e-mails of former UVA professor, Dr. Michael Mann, related to his "climate" research. The [...]
On September 23, 2013, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded an appeal in the matter ATI v. UVA (ATI is E&E Legal's former name). The Court accepted three questions for review; (1) whether the University could make citizens pay for review of documents they want to withhold, (2) what the meaning of the term "of a [...]
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 [...]
