Walcher

27 09, 2023

E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXX: Summer 2023

2023-09-27T13:53:48-04:00September 27th, 2023|E&E Legal Letters, Grimes, Milloy, Walcher|

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 [...]

22 09, 2023

Walcher: Decisions based on science or spirits?

2023-09-28T12:44:10-04:00September 22nd, 2023|DOI, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Interior Department marked its 172nd anniversary two years ago by recommitting itself to science-based decision-making, instructing its employees to follow the best available science at every turn. It was intended to realign agency procedures with the Data Quality Act of [...]

15 09, 2023

Walcher: Training kids to use dangerous weapons

2023-09-19T11:00:02-04:00September 15th, 2023|DOE, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Are we teaching kids to use dangerous weapons that create a more violent world, or how not to do so? Apparently, that depends on whether you ask the U.S. Department of Education, or the governments of all 50 states. In the [...]

1 09, 2023

Walcher: California condors on Mount Garfield?

2023-09-05T11:34:08-04:00September 1st, 2023|Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last week we mentioned the Biden administration’s “Investing in America Agenda,” and how the Interior Department is spending $44 million of its windfall share of the recent massive spending bills. It is ironic, to say the most, to call government spending [...]

25 08, 2023

Walcher: BLM’s investment in a better America

2023-09-05T11:35:00-04:00August 25th, 2023|Forest Management, Media Coverage, Public Lands, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last week we mentioned the Biden administration’s “Investing in America Agenda,” and how the Interior Department is spending $44 million of its windfall share of the recent massive spending bills. It is ironic, to say the most, to call government spending [...]

11 08, 2023

Walcher: How much is an endangered fish worth?

2023-08-17T10:59:23-04:00August 11th, 2023|Bad Science, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Several years ago, I wrote about what I thought must be the world’s most valuable fish. It was not a collectable aquarium fish, though buyers will pay $1,000 for an orange and purple striped Candy Basslet, and $2,500 for a Wrought [...]

4 08, 2023

Walcher: Why a Tesla costs more than a Model T

2023-08-08T11:59:17-04:00August 4th, 2023|E.V., Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Henry Ford’s use of a moving assembly line finally made it possible for average working Americans to own cars. Automobiles were toys for the rich, but in 1920 Ford lowered the price of a new Model T to $260, about $3,500 [...]

28 07, 2023

Walcher: Do we still need the big straw?

2023-08-03T11:17:53-04:00July 28th, 2023|Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher, Water|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In the 1980s Gunnison philanthropist Butch Clark offered a novel way to end the age-old West Slope-East Slope water battles. He suggested that Denver could use the Colorado River’s remaining unallocated water by building a pipeline from the Utah line to [...]

21 07, 2023

Walcher: Replacing fossil fuels is easier said than done

2023-07-26T11:54:11-04:00July 21st, 2023|Media Coverage, Renewable Energy, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2019 the City Manager of Scottsbluff, Nebraska proudly cut the ribbon on a huge, multimillion-dollar, 5.2 megawatt solar farm of over 14,000 photovoltaic panels, saying, “This project will help the city achieve its goal to reduce our carbon footprint and [...]

14 07, 2023

Walcher: New BLM leasing rule headed to court

2023-07-17T12:05:49-04:00July 14th, 2023|Legal, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The debate may soon turn to litigation on the administration’s proposed new rule allowing public land to be leased for “conservation,” which is to say, for no use. The proposal was the subject of over 215,000 official comments from groups, businesses, [...]

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