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 Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Even Elon Musk knows 52% of his cars are plastic and therefore the US needs more oil and gas production, not less As of 2024, more than 1 out of 6 households, or 21.12 million Americans are [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe This latest hit comes after Chevron Oil Company announced move to Houston, and Phillips 66 will shut down Los Angeles refinery by October 2025 California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not [...]
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 Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Trump is committed to unleashing American energy through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to energy production President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Wiener and the Rockefeller-backed Center for Climate Integrity suffered an important loss California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill in February to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. You read that right [...]
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 Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California refiners have not engaged in widespread price gouging, profiteering, price manipulation California’s average price for a gallon of gas today is $4.918; The national average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.260. In Texas that [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Trump Energy Department slashing unnecessary red tape and regulations that raise prices, reduce consumer choice, and frustrate the American people They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, [...]
