by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A Capital Research Center writer and investigative researcher named Hayden Ludwig published a column asserting that “If you’re alive today, you won the lottery.” He draws a stark contrast between the blessings of modern life, and the drastic changes in policies [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The New York Times ran an uncharacteristically long editorial last week about President’s Biden’s environmental agenda, headlined, “Joe Biden’s Monumental Environmental Gambit.” It was a gushy puff piece, like we have grown to expect from that source, leading with the probably-accurate [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The forest health crisis in America has reached such staggering proportions, it is no exaggeration to say, that one generation of national leaders has squandered the greatest legacy of the conservation movement — our national forests. During the last 20 years, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Harry Truman was famous for the simple instruction, “Say what you mean, mean what you say.” He was talking about personal communication, not differing interpretations of law. In his day, the law was generally clear about what was legal and what [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When I open Google or any other search engine, I not only get the search box, but also a host of suggested articles that some algorithm thinks I might care about. I rarely open any of them, but this morning one [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXI Spring. Click headlines for the full article. ExxonMobil Gets the Leftist Tiger in Its Tank by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing on RealClear Energy Control over one-third of ExxonMobil’s board of directors was captured by climate activists at [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel When different branches of the same organization work at cross purposes, it is often said that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. One seemingly unrelated pair of current political initiatives illustrates the point. Several times over [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Julius Caesar is said to have coined the phrase “divide et impera,” which means divide and conquer. It was his successful war strategy against the Gauls, and it has been working for military generals, and for political opponents, ever since. On [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on GregWalcher.com This month, voters in five counties of eastern Oregon voted to instruct local officials to take action to secede from Oregon, and join Idaho instead. Separatist movements are not especially uncommon in the West – several have sprouted in Colorado over the years [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel People who inhabit real states have, for many years, made fun of those who think Washington, D.C. should be a state. The idea has been a laughing matter for years, among people who know the difference between states and cities. But [...]
