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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s. Telling the assembled guests and reporters that the “Brook Mine” is critical to breaking China’s “stranglehold on rare [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Western newspapers, blogs, and podcasts are humming this month with stories that the seven states on the Colorado River are close to an agreement on managing the river in future years. The existing agreements, designed to “supplement” the ancient and sacred Interstate Compact during [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel During the 2024 campaign, President Trump suggested addressing affordable housing shortages by selling federal land for housing. He understands that the government controls nearly a third of the land in America but may not have anticipated what a firestorm would be ignited by the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Gertrude Stein wrote her oft-repeated line “A rose is a rose is a rose…” in a 1913 poem. She explained it as meaning “things are what they are.” But what if it’s called something else? That was Juliet’s question to Romeo: “What’s in a [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVII Spring 2025. Click headlines for the full article. President Trump Moves To End The War On Coal by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller President Trump took two major steps this week to end the 14-year-old [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Here is a late-breaking flash from a new study released last week at the University of Arizona: Westerners use too much water. Pete Seeger’s 1960s folk standard, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” is in the Grammy Hall of Fame, made a genuine classic [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Referring to the president’s annual budget proposal to Congress, a Bloomberg headline read: “Trump Plans to Offload National Park Sites, But States Don’t Want Them.” Really? I couldn’t help wondering why we have national parks that states don’t want. Without state support, how did [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Supreme Court decisions occasionally have far-reaching impacts, but last week’s ruling in Utah’s Uintah Basin Railway case was a doozy, in which the justices unanimously hinted that Eagle County, Colorado, should mind its own business. County Commissioners there had challenged the Surface Transportation Board’s [...]
