Greg Walcher

Since the days of George Washington, Presidents have wished they could make government employees do what they are told.

Though few people understand details of the “National Environmental Policy Act” (NEPA), there is a widespread sense that it is important.

What if someone said they planned to burn down your house, but it’s for your own good?

Gustave Aimard famously wrote that “There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come.”

Bayard Taylor wrote, “And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, the poppy’s bonfire spread.” He could have been describing the famous poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California.

If we switched all our electric generation to wind energy, how much brighter would our future be?

You can count on your ten fingers the number of times the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously on any environmental issue.

If America’s founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no President, they would quickly have chosen the latter.

Does government really need to regulate everything? Can no program be allowed to expire?

Greens are angry that Interior modified a rule they wanted to use to attack energy and ranching.

How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

This summer the Administration published its much-anticipated plan to modify enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The same agency that once promised not to list the Gunnison sage grouse also once said the yellow-billed cuckoo did not warrant listing, yet here we are again. Small wonder that the very word “cuckoo” means crazy.