Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXIX Spring 2023. Click headlines for the full article. Wildfire apocalypse, not by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Spectator There was nothing new about springtime wildfires in Canada until the wind shifted unexpectedly last week. That [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Former Interior Secretary Dave Bernhardt’s new book, “You Report to Me,” is edifying for anyone trying to understand why government has become so intrusive, partisan, divisive, and dare I say, dysfunctional. It is a first-hand backgrounder on the evolution of the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A landmark era of American politics passes into the history books, with Jimmy Carter under end-of-life hospice care, and with the May 27 death of James Watt. Theirs was a moment in time that deserves remembering. Most of America’s essential environmental [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Federal land managers and environmental industry lawyers are back in court, rearguing a decade-long case about livestock grazing permits. It is a generational debate that finally shows an emerging consensus, though this lawsuit clarifies it’s not universal. Throughout the 1990s when [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel People concerned about water levels in the West’s reservoirs should be able to cheer up now. The U.S. Drought Monitor system has removed drought status from the entire Western Slope and nearly all of California. Snowpack this winter was well above [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel My grandpa was a ditch rider on the Stub Canal in Palisade, and when someone used more water than they were entitled to, the solution was simple — he locked the headgates. This week, the seven Colorado River Basin states announced [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I am not old enough to have experienced rationing during World War II, but I heard stories about it from grandparents. They remembered well having to pay an inflated price for many goods, not just in money but also rationing stamps [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When I was little, Grandpa used to speculate that someday there would be a car that could run without gas. I don’t know if he could have envisioned modern wind and solar power, or lithium-ion batteries, but as a highly skilled [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2021 President Biden nominated Martha Williams to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Several powerful environmental industry groups objected and several lobbied intensely against Senate confirmation. This is a position once considered mostly nonpartisan, and historically held by scientists, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Let’s say you have a spring on your land, and you are surrounded by people living in the desert who are desperate for water. You make your living selling it to them, but I like the looks of the spring and [...]
