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. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel If I told you to go jump in a lake, you probably wouldn’t. You would know I didn’t actually want you to go jump in an actual lake. But if I took up a collection, and offered you money to go [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Few new Supreme Court nominees have generated as much interest as Judge Amy Coney Barrett, because her confirmation could have far-reaching implications by upending the court’s decades-long liberal majority. More has already been written about Judge Barrett than my poor power [...]
Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it a policy to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, completely eliminating them by 2035 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a memorandum directing the EPA to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, including reducing mammal study requests and cutting funding for studies using animals as [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Consensus on natural resources issues is elusive, often because the real agenda is not agreed upon. For me, there have been a number of "ah-ha moments," a realization that there are hidden agendas in play. Many of those moments have come during debates [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel An internationally respected geologist named John Clema recently published an article headlined with the simple truth that "Past, present and future progress requires mining." That statement should not be controversial, since most people must surely be aware of the presence in their lives [...]
