by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel House Republicans were so upset that they held two committee hearings during 2023, and in November the Committee on Oversight and Accountability announced that it will investigate the EPA’s “use of secretive ‘sue-and-settle’ practices.” The chairman says the EPA uses the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel For decades, we have debated the destruction of our national forests caused by a lack of management. We have watched catastrophic fires incinerate 200 million acres over the past 30 years. Yet we still cannot escape the conceited, supercilious popinjays in [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There are at least 25 different types of wrenches commonly found in toolboxes. There are box-end, open-end, combination and crescent wrenches. For particular jobs, one might reach for a lug wrench, basin wrench, oil filter wrench, or an impact, flare-nut, strap, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Southerners have enjoyed shrimp and grits for generations, New Englanders have their clam chowder, Marylanders their crab cakes, and Cajuns their crawfish etouffee. Oysters Rockefeller is a century-old tradition, while calamari, sushi, and ceviche are more of an acquired taste, but [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There is a line in “The Music Man,” just after Harold Hill steps off the train, when he asks a local man on the street, “What do you folks do around here for excitement?” The stranger responds curtly, “Mind our business.” [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel If I say the sky is purple and you say it’s blue, so I challenge you to prove it, what would you do? How do you prove something nobody has spent money studying because it’s never been questioned before? Are there [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Dutch electronic band Quadrophonia had a minor hit in the 1980s called “Wave of the Future” — hardly an original title. It was the name of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s 1940 book calling for appeasement with Hitler. Various magazines predicted that [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The week between Christmas and New Year’s is, for most Americans, a week of vacation, travel, rest and time with family and friends. It is a time when the fewest people are focused on the daily news; in fact, many people [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLI Fall 2023. Click headlines for the full article. Biden’s kamikaze climate plan for the US economy by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Hill This year’s United Nations Climate Week was more revelatory than the usual. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Social Security Administration, ever searching for important tasks, tracks the most popular new names for babies each year (Olivia and Liam, four years straight). Similarly, Rover.com tracks the most popular pet names (Luna and Max). But who is keeping track of the [...]
