by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel America’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has commentators arguing about what to do with the country’s oil. In many ways, it’s the wrong argument. Global political and market forces will ultimately determine whose cars and factories benefit. However, the future of the country [...]
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 An interesting case in Tennessee focuses on Congress delegating its legislative power to others — for decades. Not just to executive branch agencies, but in some situations to anyone at all. In Tennessee Riverkeeper v. City of Luttrell, an environmental group from another state [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel “Crocodile tears” is an expression describing an insincere, hypocritical display of emotion, like when a murderer pretends to mourn his victim. It is an ancient metaphor — Plutarch attributed it to “antiquity” during Nero’s reign. It has been around so long because, believe it [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVIX: Fall 2025. Click headlines for the full article. Ford’s EV Pickup Never Made Sense by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller Ford Motor Co. announced this week that it is considering scrapping production of its electric [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A 16-year-old, just allowed to drive and still excited about running family errands, was sent on an important one Christmas Eve. The family was out of eggs and cream needed to make the eggnog and sent him to the store. Everyone depended on him, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A couple years ago, I criticized the Bureau of Reclamation for draining Blue Mesa Reservoir without bothering to warn anyone. I got a little pushback for saying that while the bureau owned the dam, it did not own the water. A close friend and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The 1998 final report of independent counsel Ken Starr’s investigation of President Clinton led to the first impeachment since 1868. But today the report is better remembered for Clinton’s response, buried in footnote 1128, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Over 70,000 people are in Belém, Brazil, for the annual UN climate change party, called COP30 because it is the 30th annual “Conference of the Parties.” This year there are 56,118 delegates, appointed by governments who are parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention [...]
