by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel They’re getting old now, but I still know people who lament the urban sprawl they think ruined Denver. They miss sleepy little towns that used to be miles away from Denver and have completely separate identities — places like Parker, Golden [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The U.S. government paid $55 million for the entire West. That’s less than a sixth of the annual budget of Grand Junction. In five separate treaties, the U.S. acquired the whole country from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. The [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Sentinel’s Dennis Webb wrote an excellent and thorough article a few weeks ago about the effort to protect Dolores Canyons, including proposals for a national monument, a national conservation area and several other options. As he chronicled, opinions are almost [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I just attended a reception with Colorado oil and gas employees, and the conversation was eye-opening. I expected to hear about how difficult life in America would be without fossil fuels. There was some of that, but not in the way [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Though still only in her 40s, Germany Kent is an award-winning journalist, activist, beauty queen, producer, business leader, philanthropist and author of the best-selling series of “Hope Handbooks.” She’s been around enough to have learned some of life’s great truths and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Years ago as a high school and college debater, I was trained to begin making my case by defining key terms. A debate gets incoherent if the two sides don’t agree on what the topic is, or what is being proposed. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In a famous 1969 sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Eric Idle approaches a stranger in a pub with a series of cryptic relationship questions, ending each with “wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.” The skit was so popular it [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Atlantic writer Mateo Wong gushes about “a group of people in a red Tesla driving through the Moroccan desert,” when one exclaims, “Two million, Hans!” Apparently, the 2014 Model S became the first electric car to drive 2 million kilometers, or [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel At a recent Cato Institute conference, Elon Musk spoke about “regulatory gridlock” and a system in which “It’s basically illegal to build big projects.” He called for sunsetting numerous (unspecified) regulations, then concluded with this gem: “Every regulation should be accompanied [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLIII Spring 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Epoch TV American Thought Leaders: Steve Milloy On April 30, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on Epoch Times TV’s ongoing show, American Thought Leaders. His interview, [...]
