For Immediate Release: September 25, 2018 Contact: info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher Submits Comments for the Proposed ESA Rule Changes Applauds effort and calls for strengthening of delisting and recover provisions Washington, D.C. - Yesterday E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher submitted comments to the Department of Interior (DOI) Fish [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XX Summer 2018. Click headlines for the full article. Who's In Charge Here? by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Daily Sentinel Restaurant owners may know that open-faced sandwiches are regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [...]
E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellows Steve Milloy and Greg Walcher, along with President Craig Richardson were three of the presenters at the Heartland Institute's 2018 America First Energy Conference. The two-day event, held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, "outlined the advances for Energy Freedom we’ve seen come about under President Trump, and looked forward [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel In high school and college I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country, and remember many occasions when a debate team's plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the opponents would ask, "What will you replace it with?" [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves? We laugh at those who object to some policy that seemed perfectly OK, when they thought it only applied to others. We make fun of Al [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Endangered Species Act has inflamed emotions for 45 years since its enactment, and everywhere there are strong feelings, on both sides. The argument usually comes down to whether some species are more important than jobs, or whether all species are [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department's interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. One Washington Post columnist carped [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel The daily news is rife with stories about the disastrous forest fires that rage all around us, in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, and especially California, where a single fire has destroyed over 250 square miles and burned more than [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Advertising experts say fewer words are often more effective than lengthy descriptions. Some of the most famous ad campaigns have featured short slogans, such as "Got Milk?," "King of Beers," "Breakfast of Champions," "Have it Your Way," and even the single [...]
On August 7, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher was a panelist at one of the Heartland Institute's Energy First Conference held in New Orleans, LA. Walcher was one of three panelists on a session, Climate Lawsuits Against Energy Companies And The Government. As the panel description explained, "Environmental activists are losing the public debate, [...]
