by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Theodore Roosevelt and Sitting Bull both thought the great American buffalo were extinct. Roosevelt called it “a veritable tragedy of the animal world,” and Sitting Bull said, “a cold wind blew on the prairie the day the last buffalo fell.” They didn’t know there [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new technology that focuses 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors to reflect solar [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week, the Senate passed three Congressional Review Act resolutions overturning BLM resource management plans. What would have been called an earth-shattering precedent not so long ago was this time hardly noticed except by those who closely follow Interior and energy issues. The Biden-era [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Near the end of the Reagan-Bush era, in 1991, the Gallup poll showed more than three-fourths of all Americans — 78% — identified themselves as environmentalists. Nearly 40% called themselves “strong environmentalists.” But 30 years later, Gallup says those numbers had fallen to just [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When Congress authorized nearly $400 billion in climate subsidies, the bill was called the “Inflation Reduction Act,” though it had nothing to do with inflation. The 2001 “Patriot Act” was about expanding government surveillance powers, not patriotism. The massive new federal health insurance program [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Washington Evening Star humorist Philander Chase Johnson created a great character named Senator Sorghum. A 1902 piece called “A Delicate Distinction” had one character saying, “That friend of yours seems to have a clear conscience.” Senator Sorghum answered, “No, not a clear conscience; merely [...]
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 [...]
