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, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.’s most recognizable landmark, attracted over 2 million visitors in 1966, 1 million in 1994, and less than 250,000 by 2024. The National Park Service’s timed ticket system makes visiting the monument much harder for travelers, and the iconic structure [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Building a new subdivision is complicated. Almost every city and county in America have master plans dictating “conforming uses” of land. Most specify lot and home sizes, rules for vehicle access, water supply, sewage disposal, flood control, affordable housing and park space. Those are [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel No folk music collection is complete without the all-time classic 1967 LP, Arlo Guthrie’s debut, the entire first side of which was the 18-minute opus called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was a sarcastic and irreverent narrative protesting the Vietnam-era draft, beginning with an innocent [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the 1967 classic, “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman gets pulled aside for the ultimate one-word advice about his future: “Plastics.” It was a prophetic view of the entire nation’s economic future. In President Trump’s speech to Congress on March 4, he did not shy [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 2017, the Arizona Game and Fish Department estimated that there were only 252 Mount Graham red squirrels left. They only inhabited a few hundred acres in the 10,000-foot Pinaleño Mountains, not equipped to survive the heat of the surrounding deserts. Then, a lightning [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel It is ironic to see preservationists lobbying to save power plants with smokestacks, but that is the strange case of the Zuni power plant in Denver. The coal-fired steam plant was built in 1901 and provided electricity to a growing metropolis until decommissioned by [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In Haitian folklore, a zombie is a dead body reanimated through Vodou magic. The modern concept of zombies as flesh-eating creatures from the cemetery evolved more recently, from the 1968 comedy/horror film, “Night of the Living Dead,” and sequels like “Dawn of the Dead,” [...]
