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 [...]
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, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A common expression says, “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.” That makes no sense, as one cannot eat cake if one doesn’t have cake. Of course, that is not how the saying really goes; it’s just a modern [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I’ve been waiting since May for the media feeding frenzy I assumed would develop, when the Biden administration announced new rules to further restrict home dishwashers. There has been a deafening silence about it, though, maybe because such overreach no longer [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXXIX Spring 2023. Click headlines for the full article. Wildfire apocalypse, not by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in The Spectator There was nothing new about springtime wildfires in Canada until the wind shifted unexpectedly last week. That [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Former Interior Secretary Dave Bernhardt’s new book, “You Report to Me,” is edifying for anyone trying to understand why government has become so intrusive, partisan, divisive, and dare I say, dysfunctional. It is a first-hand backgrounder on the evolution of the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A landmark era of American politics passes into the history books, with Jimmy Carter under end-of-life hospice care, and with the May 27 death of James Watt. Theirs was a moment in time that deserves remembering. Most of America’s essential environmental [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Federal land managers and environmental industry lawyers are back in court, rearguing a decade-long case about livestock grazing permits. It is a generational debate that finally shows an emerging consensus, though this lawsuit clarifies it’s not universal. Throughout the 1990s when [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel People concerned about water levels in the West’s reservoirs should be able to cheer up now. The U.S. Drought Monitor system has removed drought status from the entire Western Slope and nearly all of California. Snowpack this winter was well above [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel My grandpa was a ditch rider on the Stub Canal in Palisade, and when someone used more water than they were entitled to, the solution was simple — he locked the headgates. This week, the seven Colorado River Basin states announced [...]
