Christopher Horner-NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA.

Dr. David Schnare, Watt’s Up With That—This week Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they favorably compare to Galileo, should have his emails, written and received while he was a young professor at the University of Virginia, protected from public release on the core basis that to do otherwise would “chill” the work of scientists and academics.

by Paul Chesser—With all the forest clear-cutting, particulate emissions, and wildlife displacement with the widespread burning that is associated with Apple’s massive new energy-sucking data center in Maiden, NC, you’d think the folks at Greenpeace’s new Charlotte office and/or dozens of other environmentalist groups would be protesting non-stop over the damage inflicted on Mother Earth. But such is not the case – at least not that the media is reporting.

By Paul Chesser—Taxpayer-backed “Green” investments are the flavor of the moment, whether they are renewables such as wind or solar companies – many of which are fledgling and therefore struggling, unless they are part of a larger corporation such as General Electric. And then there is the transportation sector and electric vehicles. But at least one recipient of massive government funds looks somewhat Solyndra-esque.

By Paul Chesser—A lot has been said about the ties of George Kaiser, a campaign contribution bundler for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, to the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal that likely has cost taxpayers $535 million thanks to a Department of Energy loan guarantee. Kaiser’s investment firm, Argonaut Venture Capital, held over 35 percent of the failed solar company’s stock – more than anyone else.

By PAUL CHESSER on 9.14.11—Dr. Michael Mann, who under a lesser title at University of Virginia created the famed “hockey stick” chart of 20th-century temperature escalations while leveling the Medieval Warm Period, has enlisted a Climategate Cavalcade of Stars to help him enter as an interested party in a lawsuit in which myorganization, American Tradition Institute, seeks to get his old UVA emails and data.

By: Christopher C. Horner, Washington Examiner, 08/27/11

The University of Virginia has joined a list of institutions claiming that there has been an actual inquiry into, and even ‘exoneration’ of, scientists exposed by the November 2009 “ClimateGate” leak, while simultaneously through its actions making a mockery of the idea.

In a report this week for Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Foundation, American Tradition Institute executive director Paul Chesser and research fellow Mark Newgent identify those who oppose natural gas development, and expose their financial incentives, relationships to each other, and their misleading statements and outright lies about hydraulic fracturing (colloquially called “fracking”).

On January 19, 2011, 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.

This request seeks records of longtime, taxpayer-funded activist Dr. Hansen, to determine whether Dr. Hansen has filed applications for outside employment, like speeches, books (emails obtained already indicate NASA staffed worked on this), cash awards and other gifts, and other support.

Casual observers believe that the Left accomplishes their goals via the three branches of government. As ATI’s Paul Chesser explains at the National Legal & Policy Center blog, they need to understand that their loss of liberties and choice, and the increased prices they pay for goods and services, are just as much the result [...]

Two corporate titans who unabashedly promote their environmentalist credibility, General Motors (Chevy Volt) and Wal-Mart (corporate sustainability), were in the news last week. Over at the National Legal and Policy Center blog today, ATI’s Paul Chesser explains how GM is involved in what looks like carbon offset fakery and how the largest retailer in the [...]

Silence from pressure groups deafening; media joins hypocrisy

American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center has learned that George Mason University promptly released an academic’s correspondence and related records of the same class as those sought by ATI from the University of Virginia regarding former assistant professor Michael Mann.

USA Today reported yesterday that investment is flooding into “clean tech” companies. So, ATI’s Paul Chesser asks at the National Legal & Policy Center blog, why do they still need all those subsidies?

That would be Duke Energy, the utility that lobbies to raise your electric bills and is financially backing the Democrats’ 2012 convention in Charlotte, which last week saw the Indiana State Ethics Commission fine a former lawyer of theirs and ban him from future employment with the state. Scott Storms had previously been a top [...]

Back in 2006 a few environmentalists produced the Evangelical Climate Initiative, which with the help of the media, portrayed the mainstream of Evangelicalism as onboard with global warming alarmism. It was a wholeheartedly deceptive document, with the names of about 190 Christian leaders — mostly proponents of a liberal “social gospel” message rather than a [...]

First there was the corporation scorecard issued by Stonyfield Farm front group Climate Counts, and then Greenpeace followed with its ratings of technology companies on their energy use, which appeared to directly contradict the findings of Climate Counts. Now comes a blatantly self-serving ranking of large companies by Atlanta-based GreenBusiness Works, who appear to be [...]

By Mark Newgent, Associate Fellow Maryland’s “green” renewable portfolio standard (RPS) law may not be so green after all. According to the latest reports from the Maryland Public Service Commission, state utilities are fulfilling their RPS mandates mostly through the use of dirty energy sources like black liquor, a byproduct of the wood pulping process, [...]

It depends on which environoia group you ask, as ATI’s Paul Chesser explains at the National and Legal Policy Center blog.

On Monday Walmart announced it would “reinforce its commitment to lower prices,” and PajamasMedia’s Richard Pollock portrayed it as a departure from the company’s efforts in recent years to cozy up to liberal causes such as Obamacare and “sustainability.” At the National Legal and Policy Center blog today, ATI’s Paul Chesser explains how there are no [...]

Politico reported yesterday that “it’s not easy being green anymore” and whined, “It’s no secret environmentalists are outgunned when it comes to cash,” as though they are hopelessly losing every political battle. I partially (I say “partially” because there is so much more that can and has been written) debunk that myth over at the National Legal & Policy Center blog today.