Press Releases

25 04, 2013

ATI FOIA Request Seeks Discussions Of Alleged Shakedown Of Private Contractor To Stop Working For Disfavored Group, Or Lose Government Business

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 25th, 2013|EPA, Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release – April 25, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI Files FOIA Request with EPA; Request Seeks Discussions Of Alleged Shakedown Of Private Contractor To Stop Working For Disfavored Group, Or Lose Government Business Washington – Today, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) filed a Freedom of Information request with the [...]

25 04, 2013

ATI & CEI Dismiss IM Lawsuit Against EPA; Agency’s Detailed Response Prompts New Inquiries for Records

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 25th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Petition Litigation, Press Releases, Transparency|

Washington – Yesterday, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) withdrew their lawsuit without prejudice that they jointly filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel the Agency to respond to the groups' requests for certain Instant Messages (IMs) to or from three senior current and former EPA officials.  [...]

9 04, 2013

ATI, CEI FOIA Suit for EPA’s Instant Messages Leads EPA Head to Acknowledge Poor Record Keeping, Begs Question of Extent of Legal Violations

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 9th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Press Releases, Transparency|

For Immediate Release – April 9, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org ATI, CEI FOIA Suit for EPA’s Instant Messages Leads EPA Head to Acknowledge Poor Record Keeping, Begs Question of Extent of Legal Violations WASHINGTON - Stung by widespread publicity resulting from recent American Tradition Institute (ATI) and Competitive Enterprise [...]

4 04, 2013

Colorado Admits Certain Defeat In Renewable Energy Lawsuit With Introduction Of New Bill

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00April 4th, 2013|E&E Legal v. CO, Legislative Branch, Press Releases, State Legislature|

For Immediate Release – April 4, 2013 Contact: Craig Richardson, Executive Director, American Tradition Institute craig.r@atinstitute.org COLORADO ADMITS CERTAIN DEFEAT IN RENEWABLE ENERGY LAWSUIT WITH INTRODUCTION OF NEW BILL Cooperatives, Jobs, and Consumers Among Biggest Losers in  State’s Latest Failed Renewable Energy Attempt  DENVER - Facing certain defeat in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality [...]

1 04, 2013

ATI , CEI Sue EPA for Instant Messaging Records: Potential Landmark Case Seeks Discussions on Agency’s War on Coal, Role of Pressure Groups from Little Known Accounts that Have Escaped

2013-10-11T10:45:05-04:00April 1st, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Horner, Press Releases, Transparency|

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 [...]

7 03, 2013

American Tradition Institute Applauds North Carolina Bill Aimed at Stopping Inhumane EPA Human Experimentation

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00March 7th, 2013|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Milloy, Petition Litigation, Press Releases|

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 [...]

28 01, 2013

ATI Environmental Law Center Sues EPA to Compel Response to FOIA Request

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00January 28th, 2013|E&E Legal v. EPA, EPA, Petition Litigation, Press Releases, Transparency|

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 [...]

2 10, 2012

Calling on Congress to Investigate Illegal EPA Human Experiments

2013-10-10T15:13:30-04:00October 2nd, 2012|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Press Releases|

American Tradition Institute Calls on Congress to Investigate Illegal EPA Human Experiments EPA deliberately exposed vulnerable test subjects to PM2.5, diesel exhaust  For Immediate Release Contact:            Sean Parnell, 571-289-1374, sean@impactpolicymanagement.com The American Tradition Institute (ATI) today joined Senator James Inhofe (R – Okla.) in asking that the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public [...]

24 09, 2012

Statement of Lead Counsel David Schnare Re: EPA Suit to Stop Human Testing

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00September 24th, 2012|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Press Releases, Schnare|

Statement of ATI’s Lead Counsel on American Tradition Institute v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US District Court, Easter District of Virginia No. 1:12-cv-1066) There are few occasions in life that emerge directly from the core of an individual and almost never are those memorialized in a law suit. On Friday, September 21, 2012, I took [...]

18 09, 2012

Update on ATI v. UVA/Mann Case

2016-12-11T17:08:18-05:00September 18th, 2012|E&E Legal vs. UVA, Press Releases, Schnare|

Yesterday the American Tradition Institute (ATI) participated in more than four hours of oral argument in the Prince William County Circuit Court, in its effort to have faculty emails which were paid for by the taxpayer, in pursuit of taxpayer funded employment, declared public records, declared subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) and [...]

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