by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Fifth Amendment is an essential part of the Bill of Rights, ensuring, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Sometimes private property stands in the way of public progress, such as when highways are built. The public good [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When President Kennedy explained the goal of sending a man to the moon, he said the nation chose to do such things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Several years ago, Utah filed a suit insisting that the federal government turn over to the State 12,000 roads that cross federal lands within Utah. Few officials noticed, as disputes over who controls public roads on federal lands are nothing new. But the federal [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The “doctrine of unstable alliances” in George Washington’s “Farewell Address” underpinned U.S. foreign policy for decades and is still considered wise, though mostly ignored. “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One of the most popular speakers at Club 20 in the 1990s was a Montana logger named Bruce Vincent, founder of a PR firm called Environomics, Inc. He was, and is, one of the country’s most inspiring and entertaining speakers on natural resources and [...]
Click here to download a complete PDF version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLIV Summer 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Harris is strategically silent on climate, but zealots know which side she’s on by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, as appearing in the New York Post One word [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously advised, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” He was talking about the financial [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Wolves yelp, bark and howl at night to commmunicate, establish territories, and even to show affection. They do not actually howl at the moon, although that romanticized vision was cited by many voters who thought returning wolves to Colorado would somehow enhance their lives. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A couple of years ago I mentioned a report called, “Beyond Carbon-Free: A Framework for Purpose-Led Renewable Energy Procurement and Development.” It was published by an energy company in Seattle, together with the Nature Conservancy and the National Audubon Society. It suggested that the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel French novelist Emile Souvestre famously wrote in 1848 that “There is something more powerful than strength, than courage, than genius itself: it is the idea whose time has come.” It was later paraphrased by Victor Hugo, often quoted as, “More powerful [...]
