FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Contact: Paul Chesser, Executive Director, [email protected]

Watch the video here.

Today American Tradition Institute published Part 2 in its three-part series of videos that explains why its Environmental Law Center sued the State of Colorado in federal court, claiming that the state’s Renewable Energy Standard violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. In Part 1, released last week, Dr. David Schnare discussed why forcing wind energy on the electrical grid produces more carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants (like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide) than does electricity just generated by fossil fuels.

In Part 2 Dr. Schnare, director of ATI’s Environmental Law Center, explains why Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard is a violation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

“Under the Commerce Clause, a state cannot set up a boundary at the state line — some kind of a hurdle for out-of-state people to get involved and to be in their marketplace,” Dr. Schnare says.

In the first video Dr. Schnare explained the lawsuit’s premise: How wind power is not clean or free, as many environmental groups claim, and therefore does not provide a local benefit to Coloradans.

“We believe that if people knew how variable wind was, and how dirty it was, if they knew the wind was neither free nor clean, then they may not have government demand its use,” Dr. Schnare said in Part 1.

To watch Part 2, “Constitutionality,” which explains ATI Environmental Law Center’s case against Colorado, please click here.

To watch Part 1, please click here.

See ATI’s first video, “What is the American Tradition Institute Environmental Law Center?“

For an interview with American Tradition Institute Environmental Law Center director David Schnare, email [email protected] or call (202)670-2680.