by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Glenwood Canyon’s Hanging Lake Tunnels are modern engineering marvels, completed in 1991 at a cost of $75 million. They are three-quarters of a mile long and house a parking area for maintenance vehicles and a space-age command center that monitors cameras, operates variable message [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue LII: Summer 2026. Click headlines for the full article. Is It Time For The Nuclear Option In The AI Race? by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller AI needs vast amounts of electricity, more than America can [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Colorado has often been called the “rooftop state” because the water that falls on Colorado flows to other states, with virtually none flowing in. Geologists call it a “headwaters state” because so much of the nation’s water supply originates in Colorado. Both distinctions have [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Common Sense Institute (CSI) just published an analysis of the economic impact of hunting and fishing in Colorado, to help inform debate on a November ballot measure called Amendment 83. It would enshrine in the state constitution the right of the people to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Hagrid is one of the most beloved characters in the Harry Potter series. The half-giant befriends Harry and his cohorts Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with whom he develops the habit of letting slip bits of information that were supposed to be confidential. He [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1989, the U.S. Forest Service published a 13-page booklet (Program Aid No. 1442) titled, “Trees are the answer... to America’s growing environmental concerns.” The Society of American Foresters turned it into a bumper sticker and by the end of the 1990s cars across [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel John Wesley Powell, the 19th century Colorado River explorer and long-time head of the U.S. Geological Survey, published one of the earliest analyses of the American Southwest in 1879, called “Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States.” He may [...]
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 [...]
