American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia to force the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to release ethics records for taxpayer-funded global warming activist Dr. James Hansen –specifically records that pertain to his outside employment, revenue generation, and advocacy activities. ATI seeks to learn whether NASA approved Hansen’s outside employment, which public financial disclosures and other documents reveal to have brought him at least $1.2 million in the past four years. This money comes in addition to –and, more troubling from an ethics and legal perspective, is all related to –his taxpayer-funded employment. Dr. Hansen’s outside employment commenced when he increased his “global warming” activism from his perch at NASA. On January 19, ATI filed a Freedom of Information Act request (PDF) with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which sought records detailing NASA’s and Hansen’s compliance with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and with NASA Rules of Behavior.

Excerpt: "...public financial disclosures and other documents reveal to have brought him at least $1.2 million in he past four years. This money comes in addition to –and, more troubling from an ethics and legal perspective, is all related to –his taxpayer-funded employment."

For more, go to weblink...http://www.atinstitute.org/ati-law-center-asks-court-to-force-nasa-to-produce-ethics-and-outside-employment-records-of-dr-james-hansen/

Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org

Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org

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