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, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel At the end of the classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” when Dorothy asks Glinda for help getting home, the good witch of the north says, “You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power.” This week I [...]
