by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A friend of mine tells stories that can be a bit long, so he often gets interrupted, as someone tries to change the subject. It never works. He just jumps back in with, “Well, as I was saying…” That’s where we are now in [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Range Magazine features a story called “Where the Desert Bloomed” about the Bend, Oregon, region along the Deschutes River. It could just as well be about the Grand Valley. It describes a once-arid desert turned into a lush valley of productive agriculture by irrigation [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1867, Harper’s Magazine published a story about Tennessee Congressman Davey Crockett and his encounter with an angry constituent. It began with Crockettt’s first House term in 1827, when there was a great fire in Georgetown. Many houses were burned and families made homeless, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Fifth Amendment is an essential part of the Bill of Rights, ensuring, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Sometimes private property stands in the way of public progress, such as when highways are built. The public good [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When President Kennedy explained the goal of sending a man to the moon, he said the nation chose to do such things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Several years ago, Utah filed a suit insisting that the federal government turn over to the State 12,000 roads that cross federal lands within Utah. Few officials noticed, as disputes over who controls public roads on federal lands are nothing new. But the federal [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The “doctrine of unstable alliances” in George Washington’s “Farewell Address” underpinned U.S. foreign policy for decades and is still considered wise, though mostly ignored. “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One of the most popular speakers at Club 20 in the 1990s was a Montana logger named Bruce Vincent, founder of a PR firm called Environomics, Inc. He was, and is, one of the country’s most inspiring and entertaining speakers on natural resources and [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLIV Summer 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Harris is strategically silent on climate, but zealots know which side she’s on by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, as appearing in the New York Post One word [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously advised, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” He was talking about the financial [...]
