by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Green is an important color in Chinese culture. Jade symbolizes harmony with nature; the dragon represents transformation. Green tea symbolizes health; green bamboo implies resilience. And now, China wants to be known for its leadership of the global transition to green energy. But the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I follow ups and downs of the environmental industry almost like a part-time hobby, for several reasons. For one, many environmental groups pretend to be local, grassroots activists, when in fact many are nationally organized and funded as part of a larger network. But [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I attended a meeting last week about federal ownership of Western lands and various proposals to transfer some of it to states. To settle a bet, I asked a popular AI tool how that might work, just to test its objectivity. It said, “Transferring [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue L: Winter 2026. Click headlines for the full article. Al Gore Got Climate Wars All Wrong by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller Al Gore said that climate change could lead to war. That has not happened. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1970 when President Nixon presented to Congress “Reorganization Plan No. 3,” no one foresaw the eventual result — some of history’s greatest environmental successes, and a virtual stranglehold on economic progress. America’s air and water are far cleaner today, automobiles emit virtually nothing, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The New Seekers are best remembered for wanting to buy the world a Coke in their classic hit, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.” But a year earlier, they first hit the charts with another standard, “Look What They’ve Done to My [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel My granddad had a great expression when something was remarkable or astonishing: “Well, that just beats the Dutch!” It was a linguistic heirloom of the 17th century when England and the Netherlands were commercial and naval rivals. Something had to be extreme to surpass [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This fall, Colorado voters may see a ballot measure to change the way highway funding is spent; always a source of controversy and heated debate. But for voters on the Western Slope, the issue is a no-brainer if ever there was such a thing. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel n the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln famously said, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Notoriously modest, he was completely wrong. One hundred and sixty-three years later, his speech is perhaps [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel If you were a grey wolf, it would be hard to imagine a more hostile environment than this state, into which 25 wolves have been involuntarily and violently extradited from their natural homes. It is reminiscent of illegal immigrants from south of the border [...]
