Press Releases

January 30, 2011, 07:43 AM

As the Montana legislature considers repealing the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), a study by the American Tradition Institute and the Montana Policy Institute says that the state's alternative energy mandates will be costly to citizens.  Read More

January 27, 2011, 11:39 AM

Proposals to implement a national Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) – such as the 80 percent “clean energy standard” by 2035 suggested by President Obama in his State of the Union speech this week – would impose severe economic costs, including job losses and cuts in family income, according to a study published today by the American Tradition Institute.  Read More

January 24, 2011, 03:06 PM

As a legislative committee today considers a bill that would repeal Montana's Renewable Portfolio Standard, a preview of a report by the American Tradition Institute and the Montana Policy Institute says that the state's alternative energy mandates will be costly to citizens.  Read More

January 21, 2011, 03:40 PM

Christopher Horner, senior director of litigation for the American Tradition Institute's Environmental Law Center, will appear tonight on the nationally syndicated Jason Lewis Show to discuss ATI’s recent Freedom of Information Act requests with NASA and the University of Virginia, seeking (respectively) the records of climate change activist scientists James Hansen and Michael Mann.  Read More

January 19, 2011, 08:22 AM

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 NASA Rules of Behavior.  Read More