by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There are at least 25 different types of wrenches commonly found in toolboxes. There are box-end, open-end, combination and crescent wrenches. For particular jobs, one might reach for a lug wrench, basin wrench, oil filter wrench, or an impact, flare-nut, strap, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Detroit Lions have not won a playoff game since 1991 and have never been to the Super Bowl. But no defeat stops them from trying again and again. Just like the EPA. A month ago in this space, we talked [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Twenty-three states have now sued the EPA over its so-called “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, because once again, the agency is asserting federal authority over water not covered under the law. The lawsuit says the rule “goes beyond the [...]
by Thomas Catenacci The Daily Caller Two climate experts sent a letter Monday to Republican leadership in Congress, recommending energy actions that could be taken if the GOP takes back majority control of the legislature. Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and James Taylor, president of the Heartland [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Sometimes as part of a dire prediction, someone will say, “I hope I’m wrong, but…” Last week, I was completely wrong, and that’s great news. Writing about a petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a new appeal on the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The infamous Hatfield-McCoy family feud lasted from the Civil War through the trial of Johnse Hatfield in 1901, finally ending only by an old-fashioned public hanging in Pike County, Kentucky. More than a dozen family members and friends had been murdered, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When different branches of the same organization work at cross purposes, it is often said that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. One seemingly unrelated pair of current political initiatives illustrates the point. Several times over [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A popular blog called TV Tropes has a post beginning, “So, you won a war, you bask in the glory of victory, and all that stuff. But when you finally get over all this excitement, you realize your problems still aren’t [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel This week the Trump administration released its “final” version of the new regulation defining exactly what waters are regulated by the federal Clean Water Act, under the section known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS). But is anything in government [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Since the days of George Washington, presidents have wished they could make government employees do what they are told. Actually, that frustration is much older than America. Peter the Great once said, “People think I rule Russia, but a thousand bureaucrats [...]
