ATI named longtime Washington veteran Craig Richardson as executive director. Richardson has nearly three decades of non-profit, communications, fundraising, and political experience at the national, state, and local levels.

Washington – Today, the American Tradition Institute (ATI) filed a Freedom of Information request with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking all e-mails, instant messages (IMs), and texts from EPA’s Headquarters Office of Air and Radiation and/or Office of the Administrator that involve the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA), and an EPA and [...]

ATI and CEI withdrew their lawsuit without prejudice that they jointly filed against the EPA seeking to compel the Agency to respond to the groups’ requests for Instant Messages (IMs) to or from three senior current and former EPA officials. The groups dropped their suit after EPA openly acknowledged the availability of this previously unrevealed alternative to email it offers, asserting that no such records for the three officials ever existed.

In an opinion piece in Monday’s LA Times, Doyle McManus touts a new carbon tax as something ‘everyone should love.’ Quite the contrary, it has something for everyone to hate.

Yesterday marked the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day. Former Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) is credited with founding the day in 1970. According to the EPA, Nelson believed that Earth Day was “a way to force this issue onto the national agenda. 20 million Americans demonstrated in different U.S. cities, and it worked!” By the end of 1970, Congress authorized the [...]

The American Tradition Institute (ATI) joined other concerned public policy and grassroots organizations this week to oppose North Carolina’s renewable energy mandates. The state’s general assembly is currently considering legislation that would cap and end its mandated renewable portfolio standards (rps).

Stung by widespread publicity resulting from recent American Tradition Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute FOIA lawsuits seeking emails, and most troubling, instant messages (IM’s) filed against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), acting administrator Bob Perciasepe yesterday reminded EPA employees they are expected to comply with open-record laws.

Facing certain defeat in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard mandate, lawmakers attempted to “fix” major elements of the law with the introduction of Senate Bill 13-252 yesterday. In doing so, members of the Colorado Senate and House admitted that the state’s law imposing a renewable energy standard is unconstitutional.

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. (Click here [...]

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.

By Tom Tanton, Posted on MasterResource, March 20, 2013: “Over the 2000–10 period, the U.S.-based oil and natural gas industry invested $71 billion in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, far more than the federal government ($43 billion) and almost as much as the rest of private industry combined ($74 billion).” “The United States has failed [...]

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 to research the impact of fine particulate matter, also known as PM2.5.

A new report by the American Tradition Institute (ATI) finds that the full cost of wind electricity is nearly twice what has typically been reported, once hidden costs and subsidies are taken into account. The report, “The Hidden Costs of Wind Electricity,” provides an analysis of three major costs that past estimates have ignored. “The [...]

The Washington Times, by Steve Milloy, October 18, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free. Based on [...]

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 [email protected] The American Tradition Institute (ATI) today joined Senator James Inhofe (R – Okla.) in asking that the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment [...]

September 24, 2012 For Immediate Release Contact: David Schnare, 571-243-7975, [email protected] WASHINGTON — American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to stop illegal human medical experiments conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The suit, filed in United States District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, describes in detail how six EPA employees [...]

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 five copies of a complaint to the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, filing one of them with the court and having each of the rest stamped and then sent to four senior government officials, Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and EPA General Counsel Scott Fulton.

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 [...]

(ed. note: this opinion by Chris Horner ran in Washington Examiner September 9, 2012) One more citizen eager for information on how his tax dollars are spent has just learned a key lesson about the most transparent administration in history: It is futile to ask the Obama administration for anything — unless there’s something in [...]

PRESS RELEASE: ATI APPEALS DoE STONEWALL OF FOIA’d EMAILS SHOWING SUBVERSION OF GOVERNMENTAL TRANSPARENCY, REQUESTS DOE COMPLY WITH ITS OWN RULES   Washington,D.C. August 30, 2012 Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center expanded its Transparency Initiative by filing an Appeal under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking agreement by [...]