by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel At this month’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver, I watched an extraordinarily moving interview Wil Armstrong filmed with former Sen. Ben Sasse, while the latter is undergoing treatments for advanced stage four pancreatic cancer. Sasse’s clarity and vision are rare among political figures, especially [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel What if you face difficult legal battles, and I announce that I’ve appointed myself as your lawyer? We have never met, and I don’t know anything about your needs. You know nothing of my credentials. You never agreed to hire me or signed any [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I heard about two lawyers that argued for over an hour. Finally, one said, “That’s my final word on the subject.” To which the other replied, “Oh, good. Now we can begin.” In politics, contentious agreements are a bit like that, too. There is [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel More than 100 cities and counties have imposed moratoriums on AI data centers, and the state of New York has banned new ones altogether. Fourteen other states considered bans this year and while 13 of those failed, they will be back — because Gallup [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Earlier this year U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz announced a major reorganization of the agency, prompting the usual opposition from employees predictably opposing any change in the status quo. A few environmental industry groups expressed skepticism, but the story was mostly ignored [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I met a guy at a golf course recently who expressed grave concern about the health of the grass this summer because of Colorado’s ongoing drought. We hadn’t met before and knew nothing of each other’s backgrounds. But he entertained me with a tirade [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue LI: Spring 2026. Click headlines for the full article. Which Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Correct On Climate? by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller The two most outspoken Nobel physics prize winners when it comes to the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Rodney Page’s first novel, a political thriller called “Powers Not Delegated,” follows a congressman learning how Washington works. He clings to his parents’ advice that “If you never tell a lie, you won’t have to remember what you said.” But eventually he develops “a [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that “Truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” Twenty-eight years ago, in the summer of 1998, the Club 20 Research Foundation published a report called “Decline [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A Montana friend reminded me of an old cowboy adage: “Before you take down a fence, you ought to pause long enough to ask why it was put there.” It’s a principle called “Chesterton’s Fence,” coined by writer G.K. Chesterton who cautioned against acting [...]
