by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel One of the most frustrating aspects of American politics is the failure of elected officials to do what they promised. We resent politicians who campaign on an issue — say repealing Obamacare — and seem to forget it after the election. [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The proposed "Green New Deal" has attracted enormous attention in the past few weeks, mostly negative. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise of an early vote on the measure is widely seen as a stunt, designed only to embarrass [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Observing a monarch butterfly in the 1850s, Emily Dickinson wrote about its apparently aimless flitting, "Repairing everywhere, without design that I could trace, except to stray abroad on miscellaneous enterprise, the clovers understood." She knew butterflies were somewhat mysterious. They still are. Someone [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel For 50 years, Americans have spent untold resources worrying, arguing, regulating, and litigating, over "endangered species." You might think by now we have a clear understanding of those two simple words. We do not. Experts often disagree on whether something is [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel A talented Oregon blogger named Andy Kerr recently posted an eloquent piece called "Where the Buffalo Roam," extoling the virtues of the "American Prairie Reserve," a giant conservation project underway in Montana. He mentions the folk song, "Home on the Range," with an [...]
By Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel If I said my eyes have an optical power of more than 50 dioptres, would you say that is impossible? Or perfectly normal? Or like most people, would you ask, "What in the world is a dioptre?" Context matters. In today's [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel We may have discovered, accidentally, a way to give the most radical environmental advocates what they want. We simply shut down the government, or at least part of it (the National Park Service). The most elitist, anti-people concept is the "rewilding [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel You can count on your 10 fingers the number of times the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously on any environmental issue. And you can count on the fingers of one hand the unanimous rulings on endangered species issues. In fact, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel If America's founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no president, they would quickly have chosen the latter. They knew all too well the abuses of an all-powerful monarch. But they also knew complex governments cannot be [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel A political mentor once explained to me why civility is key to long-term success, noting that "today's worst enemy may be tomorrow's only friend." The reverse is also true. Erin Mundahl, an Inside Sources energy reporter, writes about left-leaning green-oriented resort [...]
