by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel For several years I have been a senior adviser to the respected environmental firm, Dawson and Associates. The organization helps with projects that require permits, especially from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the firm’s associates include numerous retired [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing on Townhall.com Since assuming office, President Trump has maintained a sharp focus on reducing Washington’s bloated bureaucracy, fighting stifling regulations, and cutting the red tape that stifles America’s economic progress. His new plan to overhaul the complex National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a cornerstone of those efforts. That’s because NEPA has [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel CNN reports that “the fabric of America is crumbling,” quoting an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) report giving a D+ grade to the country’s roads, bridges, airports, schools, and other public works. Melodramatic? The World Economic Forum now ranks the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel A wire story printed by dozens of newspapers last month called attention to a national safety problem, the age and condition of dams. Its headline said “At least 1,680 dams across the U.S. pose potential risk.” That is my candidate for [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Comics used to joke, “Maybe we’ll see things more clearly by 2020.” After a string of jokes about how muddled and confused the world seemed, the reference to perfect vision sounded especially humorous. It has only been 2020 for three days, [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXV Fall. Click headlines for the full article. California State of Emergency: Millions in the Dark, Wildfires Spread, Gas Prices Soar by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe More than 2.5 million Californians are without power in 36 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Economic Standard “Governments should temporarily provide funding for new energy technologies so that they can become market competitive with traditional energy resources.” So the Global Energy Network Institute and other renewable energy advocates have been saying for decades. Taxpayers have been assured such [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Washington insiders’ opposition to moving the BLM to Grand Junction reached a new low last week. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), fired another shot at the Interior Department, still trying to stop the move before it starts. The [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Good Housekeeping magazine has a list of the most famous and popular Thanksgiving songs of all time, and more than half of them are about food. My favorite was recorded by the jazz pioneer Cab Calloway in 1948, called "Everybody Eats [...]
