American Tradition Institute

June 21, 2012 - A journal funded by leading North Carolina conservative benefactor Art Pope attacks the science of sea level rise, offering as evidence an article that appeared in a periodical published by Lyndon LaRouche supporters, by someone who champions the pseudoscience of dowsing.

May 11, 2012 - John Droz of the American Tradition Institute, a fossil fuel-funded advocacy group that works to discredit climate science, was the mastermind of an effort that called for setting up "dummy businesses" to buy anti-wind power billboards and creating a "counter-intelligence branch" to track the industry.

December 9, 2011 - The American Legislative Exchange Council, American Tradition Institute and the John Locke Foundation are preaching against wind energy and renewable mandates in presentations that play fast and loose with the facts.

November 29, 2011 - FALL 2011 | A conservative think tank has filed a controversial Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the University of Virginia seeking emails and other documents related to former professor Michael Mann, a leading scholar of global warming. Facing South explores who the American Tradition Institute is and the implications of its actions.

November 22, 2011 - As we get ready for the Thanksgiving holidays, we give thanks to you, our readers, and look back at a few of Facing South's biggest stories this fall.

November 4, 2011 - 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 Washington, D.C.

November 2, 2011 - A judge has decided to allow climatologist Michael Mann to intervene in a Freedom of Information Act suit brought against the University of Virginia by the American Tradition Institute, a group with close ties to fossil-fuel interests that works to cast doubt on manmade global warming.

October 31, 2011 - 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 a showdown in a Virginia courtroom.