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SW: minor - wording, 501c4-ness of WTP/ATP
''To do: merge [[Western Tradition Partnership]] (an earlier nameof the ATI's parent 501(c)(4)) into this page.''
The '''American Tradition Institute''' (ATI) is a 501(c)3 organization (officially named ''Western Tradition Institute'') with headquarters in Washington, DC and in Denver, CO. According to its mission statement, they are the ATI "a public policy research and educational foundation ... founded in 2009 to help lead the national discussion about environmental issues, including air and water quality and regulation, responsible land use, natural resource management, energy development, property rights, and free-market principles of stewardship."
In October 2011, the Institute for Southern Studies reported that
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==Background - originally formed as WTP in Colorado in 2008==
:"The Western Tradition Partnership (WTP)...[was] a political advocacy group backed primarily by the energy industry. It was first registered as a Colorado nonprofit [501(c)(4)] in 2008 by Scott Shires, a Republican operative who pleaded guilty that same year to fraudulently obtaining federal grants to develop alternative fuels."<ref name=hpotto>{{cite web
|publisher=Huffington Post
|title=Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America
