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 [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing on The Heartland Institute's Blog What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it’s for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The proposed ballot measure forcing introduction of wolves into Western Colorado has touched off another debate pitting ranchers and livestock advocates against proponents (primarily the Sierra Club and a coalition of outside environmental organizations calling themselves the Southern Rockies Wolf Restoration [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel One of the largest and most powerful environmental industry groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRCD), has hired former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy as its new president. Although NRDC put out press releases, the hiring escaped the notice of nearly every reporter [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a dairy farm cannot expand its operation, adding additional cows, without an “environmental impact statement” (EIS) analyzing its effect on global climate change. To be fair, there should be a similar legal requirement, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it's for your own good? They need to study how houses burn, so they can build better computer models to predict future home fires. In the future, therefore, that [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel In the 1957 Dr. Seuss classic, when the Grinch steals everything needed for the Who-ville Christmas celebration, the final insult is the tree. "And he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee, and now, grinned the Grinch, I'll stuff [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher A Manhattan Institute report has caused a re-examination of the greatest challenge in the move toward renewable energy. Author Mark Mills asks a simple question: what do we do when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine? Most westerners give it little thought. After all, [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXIV Summer. Click headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Petitions SEC To Investigate False & Misleading Climate Change Statements On August 13, E&E Legal petitioned U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take action to prevent and prohibit registrants from making [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher Leaders are often advised to be straightforward. “Say what you mean, and mean what you say.” The quote is often attributed to General George Patton, or sometimes to President Harry Truman. There is no evidence either of them ever said it, but they both certainly believed it. [...]
