Walcher

16 05, 2025

Walcher: Should foreign enemies own American land?

2025-05-20T11:57:51-04:00May 16th, 2025|Colorado, Communist China, Media Coverage, U.S. Congress, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel An article in BBC Science Focus highlights the difficulties of “multi-tasking,” handling several things at a time, which apparently most of us don’t do very well. “In an ideal world, we’d focus on one task at a time, get it finished and only then [...]

9 05, 2025

Walcher: Who do these congressmen think they are?

2025-05-12T13:01:25-04:00May 9th, 2025|Colorado, Media Coverage, U.S. Congress, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The New York Times this week shrieked about congressional Republicans using what it called “an obscure law” and “a little-known statute” to rescind regulations adopted at the end of the Biden administration. The article refers to the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which is neither [...]

30 04, 2025

Walcher: Does the government still need Reclamation?

2025-05-05T15:36:42-04:00April 30th, 2025|BOR, Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel My grandpa once gave away a classic Model T. It would be valuable today, but he wasn’t using it and someone else was. In fact, it costs money to keep such things, so he just said, “I didn’t need it anymore.” If only the [...]

25 04, 2025

Walcher: Colorado River: The sky is falling, again

2025-04-28T12:21:40-04:00April 25th, 2025|Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher, Water|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Every year for the past 25, at least, negotiating teams for the seven states on the Colorado River have worked to overcome a new crisis, invariably driven by two entities: the state of California and the federal Bureau of Reclamation (BOR). For a quarter-century, [...]

18 04, 2025

Walcher: Washington Monument Syndrome finally cured

2025-04-22T13:09:56-04:00April 18th, 2025|Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.’s most recognizable landmark, attracted over 2 million visitors in 1966, 1 million in 1994, and less than 250,000 by 2024. The National Park Service’s timed ticket system makes visiting the monument much harder for travelers, and the iconic structure [...]

11 04, 2025

Walcher: We built it, but they won’t come

2025-04-11T12:49:38-04:00April 11th, 2025|Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Building a new subdivision is complicated. Almost every city and county in America have master plans dictating “conforming uses” of land. Most specify lot and home sizes, rules for vehicle access, water supply, sewage disposal, flood control, affordable housing and park space. Those are [...]

4 04, 2025

Walcher: Chiquita Canyon Alice’s Restaurant Massacree

2025-04-07T15:30:32-04:00April 4th, 2025|California, Colorado, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel No folk music collection is complete without the all-time classic 1967 LP, Arlo Guthrie’s debut, the entire first side of which was the 18-minute opus called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was a sarcastic and irreverent narrative protesting the Vietnam-era draft, beginning with an innocent [...]

28 03, 2025

Walcher: Tariffs, toys and tourism: Colorado’s plastic economy

2025-04-07T15:25:21-04:00March 28th, 2025|Colorado, Media Coverage, Trump 47, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the 1967 classic, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman gets pulled aside for the ultimate one-word advice about his future: “Plastics.” It was a prophetic view of the entire nation’s economic future. In President Trump’s speech to Congress on March 4, he did not shy [...]

25 03, 2025

E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVI: Winter 2025

2025-03-25T16:58:22-04:00March 25th, 2025|E&E Legal Letters, Grimes, Milloy, Walcher|

Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLVI Winter 2025. Click headlines for the full article. On climate, common sense is in. Alarmism and spending are out by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Washington Examiner President Donald Trump campaigned on ending what he calls the [...]

14 03, 2025

Walcher: Squirrels killed by Forest Service … or courts?

2025-03-18T16:56:20-04:00March 14th, 2025|Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 2017, the Arizona Game and Fish Department estimated that there were only 252 Mount Graham red squirrels left. They only inhabited a few hundred acres in the 10,000-foot Pinaleño Mountains, not equipped to survive the heat of the surrounding deserts. Then, a lightning [...]

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