by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller The Trump Environmental Protection Agency just decided to no longer inflate the monetized benefits of EPA air quality regulations with imaginary deaths prevented. This has put the greens into orbit. The New York Times headline blared “EPA to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Biannually during my years at Club 20, we took 50 Western Slope leaders to Washington to meet with key leaders on public lands and other issues important to our region. During one such trip, we had a spirited conversation with a congressional staffer from [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A good friend of mine hired a professional photographer, at great expense, to take pictures during a planned event. Afterward, when the finished pictures were delivered, virtually all of them were blurry, because the camera had been out of focus. Laws are like that, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Theodore Roosevelt and Sitting Bull both thought the great American buffalo were extinct. Roosevelt called it “a veritable tragedy of the animal world,” and Sitting Bull said, “a cold wind blew on the prairie the day the last buffalo fell.” They didn’t know there [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 2017, the Arizona Game and Fish Department estimated that there were only 252 Mount Graham red squirrels left. They only inhabited a few hundred acres in the 10,000-foot Pinaleño Mountains, not equipped to survive the heat of the surrounding deserts. Then, a lightning [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the 1950 movie version of Grimm’s Fairy Tale, the cruel stepmother scolds Cinderella, “You clumsy little fool — clean that up!” But of course, it was the stepmother, not Cinderella, who made the mess. Sometimes it seems like the world is full of [...]
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 If I say the sky is purple and you say it’s blue, so I challenge you to prove it, what would you do? How do you prove something nobody has spent money studying because it’s never been questioned before? Are there [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Social Security Administration, ever searching for important tasks, tracks the most popular new names for babies each year (Olivia and Liam, four years straight). Similarly, Rover.com tracks the most popular pet names (Luna and Max). But who is keeping track of the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When Americans hear about a crisis, their instinct is to spring into action, to do something right away. Do whatever it takes, as Mayor Shinn in “The Music Man” says, “to prevent this dire happening from... uhm... happening.” What they don’t [...]
