by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe We’ve just had two of the mildest summers in recent memory By 2100, California will have longer summers and more extreme heat, deadlier wildfires, diminishing snowpack, 3.3 feet of sea level rise, eroded beaches and “climate whiplash”, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel People often ask me what “consultants” like me actually do. It’s a logical question because there is such a fine line between “self-employed” and “unemployed.” And there are as many different types of consulting as there are consultants. Sometimes I get paid to write [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel It is estimated that there are more trees in the eastern United States than when the first Europeans arrived in the 15th century. It is an encouraging story about mankind’s ability to restore what was harvested with reckless abandon during centuries of economic growth. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The governor cannot prohibit oil and gas drilling, or new leases, in federal waters off California’s coast “Governor Newsom announces historic new ocean protections as Trump pushes offshore drilling,” a press release from the governor’s office proclaims. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the children’s book, the big bad wolf threatens to “huff and puff and blow your house down.” Colorado’s wolves may still be huffing and puffing but the rest is uncertain. Of the 25 wolves the state introduced between 2023 and 2025, 11 are [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week, the Washington Post ran a lengthy article about the Palisade peach business, especially how this year’s Colorado River water problems may affect one of the West’s most unique industries. Several friends in D.C. called me about it, surprised that the Post would [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Glenwood Canyon’s Hanging Lake Tunnels are modern engineering marvels, completed in 1991 at a cost of $75 million. They are three-quarters of a mile long and house a parking area for maintenance vehicles and a space-age command center that monitors cameras, operates variable message [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘California is closed for business and the service industry is at the verge of a collapse’ I was recently contacted by an independent gasoline station owner regarding the financial challenges facing these operators in California. Over the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The threats to California’s water supply were important enough that the bill was passed by the California Legislature unanimously California Governor Gavin Newsom just vetoed Senate Bill 872, by Senator Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton), an important water infrastructure [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Colorado has often been called the “rooftop state” because the water that falls on Colorado flows to other states, with virtually none flowing in. Geologists call it a “headwaters state” because so much of the nation’s water supply originates in Colorado. Both distinctions have [...]
