by Ben Geman The Hill Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to compel disclosure of instant-message chats involving former Administrator Lisa Jackson, Gina McCarthy, the senior regulator nominated by President Obama to lead the EPA, and others. The new lawsuit, filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute, alleges that [...]
by Thomas Lifson American Thinker Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the minutiae of operating a business in the United States has chosen to violate the law and engage in undisclosed secret communications, in utter violation of [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Top Environmental Protection Agency officials used computer instant messages to try to circumvent open-records laws, according to a lawsuit filed by a researcher who has been hounding the agency to comply with the law. Christopher C. Horner, the researcher who earlier uncovered that EPA officials were using private email addresses [...]
WASHINGTON - In what could be a landmark case, two free market groups the American Tradition Institute's Environmental Law Center and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking communications among senior EPA officials using instant messaging or IM technology. In the joint lawsuit [...]
Dr. David Schnare, Director of ATI's Environmental Law Center, appeared on The Amy Oliver Show to provide an update on ATI's federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standards. Schnare had just been in Court in Colorado two days as the judge ruled on a series of motions, primarily involving discovery in the case. [...]
Yesterday, an investigative report by WNCN revealed that a Durham, NC man, Matthew Cipparone, has filed a complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the WNCN report, Cipparone is "seeking more than $2 million in the case" from when he "participated in EPA experiments in 2011 at the agency's labs at UNC's School of Medicine [...]
For Immediate Release – March 7, 2013 Contact: Dr. David Schnare, Director, ATI Environmental Law Center david.s@atinstitute.org 571-243-7975 WASHINGTON – Today, the public interest group American Tradition Institute (ATI) expressed strong support for a recently introduced North Carolina bill (S.B. 187) aimed at halting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unethical practice of using humans subjects [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow Washington Times It’s a good thing the U.S Public Health Service called off the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments in 1972. Had someone sued to stop the horror, a federal judge like Anthony Trenga might have stopped the suit — not the experiments. That’s precisely what Judge Trenga did on Jan. 31 in the case of [...]
PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. Contact: Chris Horner January 28, 2013 info@atinstitute.org Today, the Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of the American Tradition Institute (ATI) in federal district court in Washington, DC. ATI seeks to compel EPA to end its eight-month stonewall of two requests under the [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow & John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Winter 2012 “First,donoharm”is a fundamental precept of medical ethics.So how do U.S. Environmental Protection Agency physicians explain their non-therapeutic experiments in which they exposed health-impaired people to high levels of concentrated diesel exhaustandother air pollutants? A federal court may [...]
