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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel It is ironic to see preservationists lobbying to save power plants with smokestacks, but that is the strange case of the Zuni power plant in Denver. The coal-fired steam plant was built in 1901 and provided electricity to a growing metropolis until decommissioned by [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In Haitian folklore, a zombie is a dead body reanimated through Vodou magic. The modern concept of zombies as flesh-eating creatures from the cemetery evolved more recently, from the 1968 comedy/horror film, “Night of the Living Dead,” and sequels like “Dawn of the Dead,” [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel If I offered you a thousand dollars not to steal my car, would you be any less likely to steal it? What if I offered you a million? If you’re like most people, you would answer that you weren’t planning to steal it anyway. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A popular blogger called Taylor Cone gave some great advice for budding inventors, discussing the process of prototyping: build it, then break it, then fix it. That’s a strategy Congress ought to try. The House Appropriations Committee, Congress’s most powerful panel, has 63 members, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Police have an unflattering nickname, “Permit Patty,” for someone who calls police over frivolous complaints. It originated when a woman called the police on a little girl selling lemonade at a streetside stand — as generations of kids have done — without a permit. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In planning the nation’s 1976 bicentennial celebration, Congress made one of its dumbest-ever boondoggle decisions. Recognizing the near death of railroad passenger service since the 1950s, Congress decided to spend millions turning the aging and crumbling Union Station into the National Visitor Center. But [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel My friend Amos Eno, one of the country’s leading conservation experts, spent a decade running the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and more recently the Land Conservation Assistance Network. His writing appears in all the right publications, and he is a popular speaker at [...]
