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 [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Headlines this week claimed that “Heading Out the Door, Biden Seeks to Ban 40 Percent of Water Heaters.” It is highly unlikely that President Biden is even aware of the last regulation published by his Department of Energy (DOE). Though he supported their green [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel My grandparents were avid card players, spending many happy hours with family playing hearts, rummy, pinochle and similar games. I remember occasionally, when Grandma was a little frustrated that someone was taking too long, she would say, “Well play something, even if it’s wrong.” [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLV Fall 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump E&E Legal along with Heartland, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Truth in Energy and Climate, and The American Energy Institute, recently released [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Alaska comprises nearly 20% of the entire U.S. at over 665,000 square miles, and is the richest state in natural resources. Yet it remains the most sparsely populated state, partly because of its isolation and weather, but largely because the federal government owns most [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A lot of jokes about Elon Musk are making the rounds, in light of his new role in identifying government waste, fraud and abuse. One says after he puts a car into orbit, outer space will be full of germs and diseases, no longer [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the 1950 movie version of Grimm’s Fairy Tale, the cruel stepmother scolds Cinderella, “You clumsy little fool — clean that up!” But of course, it was the stepmother, not Cinderella, who made the mess. Sometimes it seems like the world is full of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel An early lesson I learned as a young staffer for the late Sen. Bill Armstrong was the importance of careful consideration. He disliked being rushed into hasty decisions and developed a standard response to any demand for immediate action. “If you need an answer [...]
