The American Tradition Institute, which has been at the forefront of efforts to get public servants in the USA to behave like servants of the public has changed its name to the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.
But its work continues along very much the same lines as before, with its struggle to expose the emails of public servant Jonathan Overpeck to the gaze of the people who pay his salary currently to the fore.
A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group has sued the University of Arizona demanding the release of a cache of documents — including two professors’ emails — related to climate change and global warming.
The Energy and Environment Legal Institute, which until recently was known as the American Tradition Institute, first requested the documents in December 2011. It sued in Pima County Superior Court in September, after the university released some of the documents, but withheld most on what the institute considers questionable grounds.
There is also ongoing legal work related to the University of Virginia's refusal to release Michael Mann's emails.