by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Imagine how much good we could do in this life if we had unlimited resources. If money were no object, we could cure nearly all the world’s ills and create better lives for everybody, right? Fifty-seven years ago, President Lyndon Johnson [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel President Biden travelled to Pittsburgh last week to push his proposed $1.2 trillion “Build Back Better Act.” In one of the great coincidences in the annals of political strategy, a major bridge collapsed just before his arrival, sending a bus and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Sometimes as part of a dire prediction, someone will say, “I hope I’m wrong, but…” Last week, I was completely wrong, and that’s great news. Writing about a petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a new appeal on the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel An announcement last week in Lincoln, Nebraska, raised the hackles of everyone involved in Colorado water. Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts unveiled a $500 million plan to build canals in Colorado to divert water from the South Platte River into Nebraska, and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The infamous Hatfield-McCoy family feud lasted from the Civil War through the trial of Johnse Hatfield in 1901, finally ending only by an old-fashioned public hanging in Pike County, Kentucky. More than a dozen family members and friends had been murdered, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When someone seems to be playing fast and loose with numbers, it is an effective comeback to say, “You’ve been told a million times not to exaggerate.” We see it all the time in TV ads, though there is nobody to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When we burn coal to generate electricity, we are said to be contributing to the long-term destruction of the Earth’s capacity to support life. So thousands of communities and utilities have switched to natural gas, only to be told that fracking [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXIII Fall. Click headlines for the full article. Biden EPA sued for Illegally Stacking Science Advisory Panels by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President On October 7, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) science advisory panels once again came under scrutiny for [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) recently announced the launch of a new “asset class,” one whose members will be referred to as “Natural Asset Companies.” The project was developed by NYSE and Intrinsic Exchange Group, which is a partnership of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on GregWalcher.com For twenty-five years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a document called “Ten Thousand Commandments.” It tracks the costs imposed on the economy by regulations. It is mind-boggling. When most people think about the concept of over-regulation, they immediately envision large and distant [...]
