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 ArticleSouth heavily represented on EPA's secret air polluter 'watch list'
An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR has obtained a list of chronic Clean Air Act violators, and the South comes in second only to the Midwest in terms of the regions with the...
View ArticleSpecial Investigation: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate...
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...
View ArticleTop 5 of 2011 - #4: Who's attacking climate scientists?
Our review of the top stories of 2011 here at Facing South continues. Next up: A new kind of attack on climate scientists, and the dirty-energy money behind it.read more
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 ArticleDid attorney for climate science attack group violate ethics rules?
The official paper trail suggests that an attorney involved in the American Tradition Institute's lawsuit against the University of Virginia seeking a prominent climate scientist's emails did not have...
View ArticleConservative group demanding climate scientists' emails is less than...
The American Tradition Institute has aggressively sought the emails of climatologists as part of its effort to discredit the science of global warming. But when it comes to following the rules about...
View ArticleWatchdogs dig up troubling questions about federal loan guarantees for...
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy fought the Obama administration in court to get it to disclose details about the $8.3 billion in loan guarantees it offered private companies to build two nuclear...
View ArticleLawsuit seeks withheld information about leaking Gulf oil wells
Clean water advocates have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard over its refusal to release public records about a chronic leak from Taylor Energy oil wells off the...
View ArticleAfter a powerful lobbyist intervenes, EPA reverses stance on polluting Texas...
When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch a large-scale mining project in Goliad County, Texas, it seemed the EPA would stand in the way -- until a powerful Democratic lobbyist and...
View ArticleA tale of two states and subsidy transparency
Florida and Mississippi are separated by only 100 miles, but they are worlds apart in their current approach to the disclosure of economic development subsidies.read more
View ArticleA prolonged stay: The reason behind the slow pace of executions
Amid a shortage of drugs used for executions, some states are searching for new suppliers and different drugs. Others -- including Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee -- have amended public records laws to...
View ArticleConservative group demands emails, phone records of UNC anti-poverty crusader...
The Civitas Institute, a think tank founded and funded by GOP mega-donor and NC budget director Art Pope, demanded emails and other records from UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity Director...
View ArticleINSTITUTE INDEX: Will Trayvon Martin killing bankrupt ALEC?
The American Legislative Exchange Council lost members and money after the 2011 shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his assailant under the state's Stand Your...
View ArticleNC scholars denounce conservative think tank's demand for professor's email
Hundreds of professors and grad students from colleges and universities across North Carolina are urging Gov. Pat McCrory to condemn a broad information request from a think tank tied to his state...
View ArticleINSTITUTE INDEX: Secret sweetheart deal for Georgia nuclear reactors puts...
The U.S. Department of Energy has been less than forthcoming with details about a loan guarantee to help Georgia Power and its partners build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia. As it turns out, the...
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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From Selma to sorrow
Viola Liuzzo died for her convictions in the 1960s freedom movement, and is the only white woman honored on the Civil Rights Memorial. But few know her story -- and why authorities conspired to keep...
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