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The University of Virginia (UVA) released some of the documents—data, emails, and other files—pertaining to climate researcher Michael Mann on Wednesday (Aug 24th), to a lobbying group that sued for access, according to ScienceInsider.
But the American Tradition Institute (ATI), a conservative environmental lobby group, is still not satisfied, saying that UVA only released about a third of the documents requested—providing only those they were required to hand over under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws.
Mann, who was faculty at UVA from 1999 to 2005, was at the center of the "Climategate" controversy, which became international news when hackers copied and published several emails from a server belonging to the University of East Anglia in 2009. Climate change deniers pounced on those messages—some ...
