by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel An ancient writer once said “where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.” That could well be said of the ongoing confusion about hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), a proven technology to produce natural gas and oil. Simply explained, a mix of water [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A tyrannical Tsar once said, “I do not rule Russia. Ten thousand clerks do.” Funny, even a despot like Nicholas I knew he couldn’t control everything. I sometimes wish more government officials were big enough to admit that. This week many [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Folk singer Don McLean ended “Vincent,” his classic 1972 tribute to Van Gogh, with the line, “They would not listen, they’re not listening still — perhaps they never will.” The song was about the post-impressionist painter, but that line is often [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When it was announced in 2019 that, at long last, headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management would be moved to Grand Junction, there was rejoicing in western public land states, where leaders had advocated the move for a generation. There [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In the 1967 Oscar-winning film, The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character weighs various potential careers. One neighbor famously advises him about a great future with “One word: plastics.” At the time, it was a clever satire, since there was nothing new about [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXII Summer. Click headlines for the full article. Not Our Founding Father’s Infrastructure Bill by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on RealClear Energy “And what I’m proud to say is that is what our forefathers intended,” says Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Colorado’s congressional redistricting commission has released its new draft map showing the likely district lines for the next decade. The commission and its staff worked for several months on the map, and lots of news stories quote various political pundits, mostly [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel We sometimes laugh at our 1970s pictures, now fading mercifully. I personally never liked bell bottoms, white belts, or double-knit polyester leisure suits. But I wore them because they were all the rage. We all had to, because in that era [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel It is ironic to see Phillip Morris advertising its “vision of a smoke-free future,” and putting $1 billion into the Foundation for a Smoke Free World. Or to watch R.J. Reynolds spend millions of dollars on “youth tobacco prevention.” America’s largest [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The 19th century French historian Chateaubriand once wrote that forests precede civilizations, and deserts follow them. Looking out today at smoke that covers half the country, and mudslides that bury major highways, we should wonder if we really want that to [...]
