PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The ongoing saga of the American Tradition Institute versus the University of Virginia moved forward this week with filing of the arguments of the parties on the central issues of the case. The legal arguments are shaping up to be all about academic freedom and less about whether the University can [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 4, 2011 Contact: Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that the state’s law violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Commerce Clause reserves the regulation of interstate [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 16, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org Today, American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center announced it would appeal a NASA decision to withhold from the public documents for its high-profile global warming activist, astronomer Dr. James Hansen. Two months ago ATI sought records detailing whether and how Dr. Hansen and his [...]
January 19th, 2011 Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request (PDF) with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how ‘global warming’ activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and [...]