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.
On February 14, 2023, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on FOX News’ Jesse Watters Primetime to discuss the horrific chemical spill in Palestine, OH. As Milloy points out, instead of hawking EV school buses, the EPA should have been in Ohio on Day 1 "doing their job." They were [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel History students learn one of the most famous lines from inaugural addresses, that spoken by President Kennedy in 1961, which begins, “And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you…” They rarely learn the next line, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A Capital Research Center writer and investigative researcher named Hayden Ludwig published a column asserting that “If you’re alive today, you won the lottery.” He draws a stark contrast between the blessings of modern life, and the drastic changes in policies [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The New York Times ran an uncharacteristically long editorial last week about President’s Biden’s environmental agenda, headlined, “Joe Biden’s Monumental Environmental Gambit.” It was a gushy puff piece, like we have grown to expect from that source, leading with the probably-accurate [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Don’t you hate leading, when nobody follows? It’s the story of my life, so I don’t take it personally anymore. I have tried for years to lead a conversation about restoring healthy forests. Yet I continually look around and nobody’s there. [...]
