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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A British biologist named John Gurdon won a Nobel Prize for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become “pluripotent.” That means mature cells can be converted into stem cells, so brain cells can be changed into heart, foot, or skin cells. That [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A friend named Stephen Heins is an energy and environment consultant who for a long time called himself “The Practical Environmentalist.” We’ve been kindred spirits for years because we never bought the conventional wisdom that a healthy environment is incompatible with a prosperous economy. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
