by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week the Senate finally confirmed the new director of the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce. The firestorm surrounding his nomination a few weeks earlier has not yet cooled and probably won’t. The volume is louder than the situation [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller The weed killer Roundup was recently at the Supreme Court, pitting trial lawyers against Bayer, the manufacturer of the widely used herbicide. The issue was whether congressionally mandated federal regulation of a pesticide pre-empts holding a company liable [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One month after proposing to put a man on the moon, JFK said getting drinking water from the ocean would be “one of the great breakthroughs of history” that would “dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.” Californians have worried about water for decades. The Colorado [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 'Women bear the brunt of climate change’ Climate change now impacts genders? According to State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), Climate change impacts gender. And according to Dr. Nancy L. Cohen of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Wall Street Journal headline said “San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It’s Selling It.” The article said San Diego generates enough water to rescue Arizona, though that’s jumping the gun just a bit. No such deal has actually been finalized yet, [...]
by Audrey Streb The Lion In a move analysts say could reshape the global energy order, The United Arab Emirates left the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the broader OPEC+ alliance on Friday. The UAE departed OPEC as President Donald Trump is pushing for American energy dominance. The U.S. is one of [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Are Democrat lawmakers willing to destroy food production in California over the imaginary air quality crisis? A 2025 Cal Poly research paper revealed that California lettuce growers now spend 12.6% of their total production costs on [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I don’t know anyone else who tracks the number of federal cops, but the watchdog group Open the Books occasionally reports on the burgeoning number of federal agencies with law enforcement divisions. The latest report, “The Militarization of Federal Bureaucracy,” detailed the astonishing scope [...]
by Alex Guillén, Jean Chemnick, and Kevin Bogardus Greenwire Three of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members have resigned in the past two months and rumors swirl about who else will get the ax ahead of the coming midterm elections. But not Lee Zeldin. The head of EPA is sitting comfortably in the eye of the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Colorado Legislature can only meet for 120 days a year, every legislator can only introduce five bills, bills must be passed by the 90th day, new programs must have a sunset clause, all meetings must be public and documents available for everyone to [...]
