SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate...
Dirty-energy interests, wealthy conservatives and the think tanks they fund have joined forces to target global-warming researchers using the Freedom of Information Act -- and this week they're set for...
View ArticleAttorney with group targeting climate scientists' emails featured at...
Christopher Horner, director of litigation for the global-warming denier group the American Tradition Institute, is one of the featured speakers at this weekend's Americans for Prosperity conference in...
View ArticleFederal court rejects Virginia attorney general's effort to block climate action
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington rejects Ken Cuccinelli's challenge to the EPA's finding that unregulated greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health and safety. Cuccinelli, who's...
View ArticleClimate science attack group turns sights on Texas professors
The American Tradition Institute, a conservative think tank with ties to fossil-fuel interests, is continuing its campaign to discredit prominent climate scientists using freedom of information...
View ArticleUniversity of Virginia prevails against climate science attack group
A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works...
View ArticleKen Cuccinelli
Right Ken Cuccinelli is the current Attorney General of the state of Virginia. He is the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia in 2013. He holds degrees in engineering, law and commercial...
View ArticleVoter purging in Florida and Virginia leads to lawsuits
With elections fast approaching, officials in Florida and Virginia are hard at work striking names from their lists of eligible voters. But their efforts are the target of legal challenges by those who...
View ArticleYouth help turn back the tea party in Virginia gubernatorial race
As the pundits parse the outcome of this week's important election in Virginia, a few things are already clear: the youth vote matters, and it does not favor the tea party.Image Caption: Terry...
View ArticleElection 2014: Does climate change stand a chance against the oil boom?
Record-breaking domestic oil production is likely to swamp any effort to inject climate concerns into 2014 mid-term elections -- and could even cost Democrats the Senate.Image Caption: Texas Attorney...
View ArticleClimate science denier group must pay damages for frivolous lawsuit against...
The Virginia Supreme Court has ordered the American Tradition Institute to pay $250 to the University of Virginia and former professor Michael Mann for filing a lawsuit that sought his emails and other...
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