by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe CG Water Series: Where is California’s water going? Playing water war games with the people’s water is getting old in California. The winter of 2019 brought 200 percent of average rains and snow pack. Yet the state is still [...]
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 [...]
by Jason Hopkins The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that staffers did not break protocol regarding a contentious study on glider vehicles, but critics are trashing the audit. While EPA employees failed to “fully adhere to its delegation of authority,” they ultimately complied with the agency’s standard practices when conducting glider vehicle [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe First High Speed Rail Authority removed docs, now the Department of Corrections joins the anti-transparency club Last week California Globe reported that thousands of pages of public records were removed from the highly controversial California High Speed Rail Authority [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Folks who worry about the loss of threatened and endangered species should be relieved to know that Congress is finally considering an entirely new approach — creating a new federal fund, and a new committee. A bipartisan group led by Reps. Debbie Dingell [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Don McLean ended "Vincent," his classic tribute to Van Gogh, with the famous line, "They would not listen, they're not listening still — perhaps they never will." The song was about the post-impressionist painter, but that line has been used in many political [...]
Jean Chemnick E&E News reporter The Trump administration's attempt to overhaul the way EPA does science may not have a long shelf life. Many science advocates and past leaders of EPA's expert advisory panels say the panoply of executive orders and guidances President Trump and his EPA administrators have issued over the past 2 ½ [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Gustave Aimard famously wrote that "There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come." It could well be said of this week's announcement that the Interior Department will, at long last, move the [...]
WND Exclusive Edward Teller Award recognizes work opposing 'failed hypothesis' of climate change President Trump is being honored by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness for his defense of the nation, including his withdrawal from the Paris climate deal. The organization, which is holding its 37th annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona, this weekend, decided to recognize [...]
Today, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow and Board Member Greg Walcher testified in front of the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands in support of H.R. 1572,“Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration, and Promotion Act.” In his testimony, Walcher noted, "In the wake of catastrophic fires that [...]
