by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel “Crocodile tears” is an expression describing an insincere, hypocritical display of emotion, like when a murderer pretends to mourn his victim. It is an ancient metaphor — Plutarch attributed it to “antiquity” during Nero’s reign. It has been around so long because, believe it [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVIX: Fall 2025. Click headlines for the full article. Ford’s EV Pickup Never Made Sense by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller Ford Motor Co. announced this week that it is considering scrapping production of its electric [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A 16-year-old, just allowed to drive and still excited about running family errands, was sent on an important one Christmas Eve. The family was out of eggs and cream needed to make the eggnog and sent him to the store. Everyone depended on him, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A couple years ago, I criticized the Bureau of Reclamation for draining Blue Mesa Reservoir without bothering to warn anyone. I got a little pushback for saying that while the bureau owned the dam, it did not own the water. A close friend and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The 1998 final report of independent counsel Ken Starr’s investigation of President Clinton led to the first impeachment since 1868. But today the report is better remembered for Clinton’s response, buried in footnote 1128, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Over 70,000 people are in Belém, Brazil, for the annual UN climate change party, called COP30 because it is the 30th annual “Conference of the Parties.” This year there are 56,118 delegates, appointed by governments who are parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel After the 2020 George Floyd murder, the Sierra Club called for defunding police and reparations for slavery. It touched off an internal battle that tore the organization apart, leading to the ouster of two consecutive executive directors, employee layoffs, office closings, loss of members, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Theodore Roosevelt and Sitting Bull both thought the great American buffalo were extinct. Roosevelt called it “a veritable tragedy of the animal world,” and Sitting Bull said, “a cold wind blew on the prairie the day the last buffalo fell.” They didn’t know there [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new technology that focuses 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors to reflect solar [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week, the Senate passed three Congressional Review Act resolutions overturning BLM resource management plans. What would have been called an earth-shattering precedent not so long ago was this time hardly noticed except by those who closely follow Interior and energy issues. The Biden-era [...]
