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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In a popular Substack publication called Asterisk Magazine, a California physicist named Casey Handmer wrote a great piece titled “It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional,” about desalination technology. But he also touched on an even more fundamental point about how people don’t want to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1937 the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry published “Reflections on the World Today,” in which he originated one of literature’s great lines: “The problem with our times is that the future is no longer what it was.” The line was perfected later [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week the Senate finally confirmed the new director of the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce. The firestorm surrounding his nomination a few weeks earlier has not yet cooled and probably won’t. The volume is louder than the situation [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One month after proposing to put a man on the moon, JFK said getting drinking water from the ocean would be “one of the great breakthroughs of history” that would “dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.” Californians have worried about water for decades. The Colorado [...]
