WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Tradition Institute (ATI) joined the American Energy Alliance (AEA) and 12 other free market organizations in sending a letter today to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources which called on committee members to oppose the confirmation of Ron Binz as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Citing “grave […]

On September 6th, ATI, along with counsel from the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the University of Arizona to produce public records relating to what the London Telegraph’s Christopher Booker called “the worst scientific scandal of our generation.”

ATI’s Board Member and Senior Fellow Greg Walcher, author of a new book, Smoking them Out, wrote a guest commentary for the Denver Post on September 9th titled, Seeing the Forest through the Trees. In the piece, he points out that the wild fires in the west are preventable and are actually caused by the mismanagement of our forests.

Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a Letter to the Editor signed by ATI’s Senior Fellows Chris Horner, and Amy Oliver Cooke, and Executive Director, Craig Richardson, along with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s William Yeatman. The letter was titled: “Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers: The President’s nominee to chair the FERC, Ron Binz, has shown himself […]

On Thursday, August 1, Tom Tanton, ATI’s Director of Science & Technology Assessment, wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Washington Times. His piece discusses the coordinated “war on coal” by opposition groups, and the serious negative impacts it is having on poorer nations.

Washington, D.C. - The American Tradition Institute (ATI) yesterday joined eight other free market groups, including the American Energy Institute (AEI), in support of Rep. Tim Murphy’s (R-Pa.) amendment to H.R. 1582, The Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013. The organizations, in a letter to Members of the 113th Congress, asked Congress to strongly consider the Murphy amendment […]

ATI, joined by the FMELC, filed 2 FOIA requests after being provided with credible information by 2 EPA career employees indicating electoral and political considerations drove the Obama Administration’s reversal of its hydraulic fracturing campaign.

American Tradition Institute’s (ATI’s) current federal court challenge to Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES) is featured prominently in an article, Putting the Dormant Commerce Clause Back to Sleep: Adapting the Doctrine to Support State Renewable Portfolio Standards. The article, published in April by Timothy P. Duane, professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz […]

On July 21, 2013, Politico ran an article by Erica Martinson, “The Case Against EPA Bias.“ Following is a response by ATI Senior Fellow Chris Horner: 1) “Horner also used a broader definition of he considers a “denial.” Translated, “Horner used the legal definition of what constitutes a denial”. Yes, CEI and ATI used FOIA’s […]

Greg Walcher has spent a lifetime working to conserve the environment, while providing the resources needed to sustain a prosperous economy today. His new book, Smoking Them Out: The Theft of the Environment and How to Take it Back, is an Olympic-level reality check to out-of-control environmental policies that are destroying the economy, costing jobs, and doing little to help the environment.

Washington, D.C. – As the fitting next-step after President Obama’s strident speech Tuesday reaffirming his war on abundant American energy sources, particularly coal, he nominated Ron Binz, a former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities (PUC) and a well-known anti-coal crusader, to serve as the next chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC). As […]

By Tom Tanton Director, Science & Technology Assessment According to the most recent global GHG emissions’ inventory by IEA: Despite positive developments in some countries global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.4% to reach 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2012, a historic high. Non-OECD countries now account for 60% of global emissions, up from 45% in […]

Washington, D.C. - On June 7th, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a suit involving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) against the state of Michigan regarding a FERC plan to apportion costs for new power lines to transport wind power around the Great Lakes area. Michigan’s 2008 Renewable Energy […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Tradition Institute today joined the American Energy Alliance and 18 other free market organizations in a joint letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor urging a floor vote on the concurrent resolution, H. Con Res. 24, expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy.

In a crass case of political opportunism, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) used the tragedy of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma to push her carbon tax idea.

EPA, rocked by evidence that it treats environmental groups favorably when it comes to granting waivers for public records fees while denying requests for conservative organizations, attempted to cover-up the emerging scandal by calling for an internal “programatic audit.”

By Tom Tanton Director, Science & Technology Assessment American Tradition Institute (ATI) In his article, “Is Renewable Energy Compatible With a Reliable Electric Grid?,” Mr. Bredenberg refers to a recent study by electric-power research firm Synapse Energy Economics Inc., prepared for the Civil Society Institute(CSI). The CSI study found that, “the U.S. electricity grid could integrate […]

Op-Ed by ATI’s Greg Walcher, Denver Post, 05/05/13

My generation now laughs at the fashions of the 1970s. I personally never liked bell bottoms, white belts, or double-knit polyester leisure suits. But they were all the rage; we wore them or risked appearing uncool.

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 […]