by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I met a guy at a golf course recently who expressed grave concern about the health of the grass this summer because of Colorado’s ongoing drought. We hadn’t met before and knew nothing of each other’s backgrounds. But he entertained me with a tirade [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Rodney Page’s first novel, a political thriller called “Powers Not Delegated,” follows a congressman learning how Washington works. He clings to his parents’ advice that “If you never tell a lie, you won’t have to remember what you said.” But eventually he develops “a [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that “Truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” Twenty-eight years ago, in the summer of 1998, the Club 20 Research Foundation published a report called “Decline [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A Montana friend reminded me of an old cowboy adage: “Before you take down a fence, you ought to pause long enough to ask why it was put there.” It’s a principle called “Chesterton’s Fence,” coined by writer G.K. Chesterton who cautioned against acting [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In a popular Substack publication called Asterisk Magazine, a California physicist named Casey Handmer wrote a great piece titled “It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional,” about desalination technology. But he also touched on an even more fundamental point about how people don’t want to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A friend named Stephen Heins is an energy and environment consultant who for a long time called himself “The Practical Environmentalist.” We’ve been kindred spirits for years because we never bought the conventional wisdom that a healthy environment is incompatible with a prosperous economy. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A group called Environment Oregon is circulating a petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to get on with it. Two years ago, the agency proposed reintroducing sea otters to the Oregon coast, concluding that reintroduction was not only [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There is a famous story about Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman walking down the street with a friend. The friend stopped and said, “Hey, there is a $20 bill on the sidewalk.” The economist turned to him and replied, “There can’t [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When I first moved to Washington, D.C., fresh out of college in 1979, a Capitol Hill friend offered a temporary room in a great old townhouse. Another room was occupied by a somewhat quirky, funny and absolutely brilliant writer named R.J. [...]
On February 14, 2023, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow appeared on OAN's Real America with Dan Ball. The devastating environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio continues to cause untold damage to the area. Milloy appeared to discuss the fallout and the Biden Administration's inexplicable lack of reaction to the horrendous crisis. Watch here.
