by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel George Bernard Shaw once quipped, "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." That could apply to the famous 2009 meeting between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Pope Benedict XVI, after which she reported that [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, made a campaign appearance in Pueblo, Colorado. He was asked about western water issues — as national candidates invariably are when visiting the Centennial State — and his answer baffled [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I have a friend who saved all his junk mail for a year, so he could weigh it. He was convinced that he received more unsolicited mail than anybody, and wanted to prove it. The pile weighed over 40 pounds. Imagine [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I was among a small group that met recently with Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, to talk about public land management. When the discussion turned to minerals, he picked up a dark brown rock from the Mojave Desert and passed it around, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Louisiana Sen. Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: "Don't tax you; don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." It was an apt description of our natural desire to make other people pay for things we [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In June of 1954, the career of Sen. Joseph McCarthy began to implode when an Army lawyer, Joseph Welch, interrupted with his now-famous, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" The anti-communist investigations soon ended, and senators voted to censure McCarthy. [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Bayard Taylor wrote, "And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, the poppy's bonfire spread." He could have been describing the famous poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California. They cover the hillsides so colorfully that they are a popular destination for [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel If we switched all our electric generation to wind energy, how much brighter would our future be? We have been warned about the effects of climate change for years, and a fairly strong majority of Americans believe there is cause for [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXII Winter 2019. Click headlines for the full article. Green New Deal rollout rattles both sides of climate change debate Fox New Channel Die-hard skeptics of climate change believe the rollout of the Green New Deal, with its plans for wealth redistribution, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Let's say we're neighbors. You have a beautiful and valuable car, and you decide to sell it. But I like looking at it in your driveway, so I might offer you even more than it's worth — not to sell it. [...]
