by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Co-workers were standing around the water cooler when the boss came in and asked everyone, “What are you all doing to celebrate Earth Day this year?” One employee answered, “Already done — I sent all my work-related e-mails to the recycle [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A popular website called LifeHack lists 25 things it calls “unnecessary wastes of money.” Wasteful items include dryer sheets, coffee k-cups, sliced cheese, cable TV and buying a snack “every now and then.” One could endlessly debate the wisdom of slicing [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Headlines across the Midwest are blaring: “Great Plains lost 1.6 million acres of grasslands in 2021.” The story is based on a report from the World Wildlife Fund, supposedly tracking the conversion of grasslands to row crops. It says over the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on Gregwalcher.com Most of us are unaware of the caliber of disaster caused by some member of the U.S. Popcorn Board revealing how another member voted in a popcorn referendum. But no worries. The Department of Agriculture is keenly aware of the danger and has [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel New York banning gas stoves and furnaces in all new construction has not produced any reductions in global carbon emissions. More federal regulation of dishwashers and air conditioners has not done the trick. Seventeen states banning the sale of gasoline-powered cars [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Most of us are unaware of the caliber of disaster caused by some member of the U.S. Popcorn Board revealing how another member voted in a popcorn referendum. But no worries. The Department of Agriculture is keenly aware and has made [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The drive to reduce carbon emissions has changed the worldwide discussion of energy in recent years, no longer focused mainly on the politics of oil, but on various forms of “renewable” energy. I’ve always thought that term somewhat ironic because all [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel One paragraph in President Biden’s 2021 climate policy executive order directed a feasibility study for a new CCC, a “Civilian Climate Corps.” Congressional committees asked: What exactly would it do? They have asked about it only occasionally since then, so the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I’m not going to move to Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., or Seattle. You can’t make me, so don‘t try. Those cities have all joined what they call [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXX Summer 2023. Click headlines for the full article. Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Wall Street Journal The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the [...]
