by John Dale Dunn MD JD American Thinker United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before Congress in September of 2011 that small-particle (2.5 microns or less) air pollution is lethal. "Particulate matter causes premature death. It's directly causal to dying sooner than you should." At the hearing, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) asked, "How would you [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow Washington Times Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessments would deem potentially lethal, or that it hides the results of those experiments from Congress and the public because they debunk those very same risk assessments? JunkScience.com recently obtained through the [...]
UPDATE It appears UVA gave Michael Mann a copy of the documents we have sought and under law this means UVA waived its right to withhold the documents from us. UVA effectively admitted they gave the emails to Mann and in their most recent motion and legal memorandum they argue we are trying to do an “end [...]
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. January 25, 2012 On Tuesday the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center sent the University of Virginia and Michael Mann copies of 40 emails selected as examples of the 27 categories identified as benefitting from the Court’s review of UVA and Mann’s claims that emails in the taxpayer-funded [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 3, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org As it waits for the resolution of its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which seeks the outside employment permission records of global warming activist Dr. James Hansen, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center has received the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, director of litigation, chris.horner@atinstitute.org Paul Chesser, executive director, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org Today the board of directors for the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued a statement and press release that denounced “personal attacks,” “harassment,” “death threats,” and “legal challenges” toward climate scientists. AAAS’s press release [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia to force the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to release ethics records for taxpayer-funded global warming activist Dr. James Hansen – [...]
by Paul Chesser, ATI Executive Director American Standard Last week our organization, American Tradition Institute, sued the State of Colorado in federal court because we assert that its Renewable Energy Standard law violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The mandate requires that major utilities in the state (mainly Xcel Energy, which favors the law) [...]
by Chris Meehan CleanEnergyAuthority.com The American Tradition Institute (ATI) recently filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado in Denver, challenging the state’s renewable energy standard as unconstitutional. The organization alleged that Colorado’s renewable energy standard is in violation of Commerce Clause and should be declared unconstitutional. Under Colorado’s renewable portfolio standard, which [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 7, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org Response by Dr. David Schnare, Director of ATI’s Environmental Law Center, to the American Wind Energy Association’s statement about ATI’s lawsuit against the State of Colorado: “In typical lobbyist fashion, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) thinks they own the facts. The American Tradition Institute’s [...]
