by Michael Conger Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials are using reproduction fees to delay or avoid releasing documents under the Freedom of Information Act, two conservative think tanks said in a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment [...]
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 [...]
A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District refused standing to alarmist environmentalists, including the Sierra Club, because they could not demonstrate that CO2 emissions from refineries in Washington State causes environmental harm in Washington state. It is important to note that the Court assumed "without deciding" that the CO2 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release – September 10, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org 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 [...]
For Immediate Release – June 18, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org RECENT MICHIGAN COURT CASE RULING REGARDING RENEWABLES HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR ATI'S COLORADO SUIT, RENEWABLE MANDATES IN GENERAL Washington, D.C. -- On June 7th, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a suit involving the [...]
For Immediate Release – June 18, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org Washington, D.C. -- On June 7th, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a suit involving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) against the state of Michigan regarding a FERC plan to apportion costs for new [...]
