Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVIII: Summer 2025. Click headlines for the full article. Pulling The Plug On Liberal Org’s Dark Money Empire by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller The Gates Foundation’s sudden $450 million divorce from Arabella Advisors isn’t about [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week’s withdrawal of President Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) provides an opportunity, not just for a new nominee but for a new approach to the whole Colorado River management mess. It is an opportunity the White House and Interior [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel John B. Finch, a 19th century prohibition activist, originated the expression, “your right to swing your arm ends just where my nose begins.” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes often used similar analogies to argue that personal freedoms do not extend to injuring the safety or [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week when some marauding teens bashed a mailbox with a bat, angry neighbors posted on nextdoor.com, “there needs to be a law against that.” Is that just an impulse reaction, or do they really not know there is a law against that. Since [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel All my adult life, presidents have talked about energy independence. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan — even presidents like Biden and Obama, who did everything they could to stop domestic energy production. But on both sides, changing policies is said to be as difficult as [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A land ownership checkerboard exists in nearly every state because of an oddity called “state school trust lands.” The federal government granted those lands at the time of statehood, under the Land Ordinance of 1785. Thomas Jefferson’s system divides and records land into townships, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Bonnie Sue Hitchcock, critically acclaimed author of “Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town,” says people always want someone to blame in a tragedy. It is pearl of wisdom universally and invariably true. This year’s wildfires, including two catastrophic fires in Rio Blanco County, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel If the teenager wrecks the car four times, parents don’t generally reward him with a newer and more expensive model. If a salesman doesn’t sell a single product, owners do not promote him to sales manager. If a businessman flops with three consecutive startups, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Every time congressional dysfunction has caused a temporary government shutdown, I’ve heard people make fun of the instruction that “essential workers” must report to work anyway. Pundits always ask, if other government workers are not essential, why do we pay them? What business hires [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the next few days, the Environmental Protection Agency will announce that it is officially revisiting its 2009 “endangerment finding,” the controversial declaration that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant. Dozens of lawsuits will immediately follow, some judge will block the process, and courts [...]
