Greg Walcher

The abuse of NEPA is bad for the economy, driving up prices and precluding energy independence. Perhaps it’s not just Manchin, but all of us, being educated in the harsh realities of modern politics.

For generations, the conventional wisdom has been that we are losing open space and wildlife habitat to development at an alarming rate. The conventional wisdom may be wrong.

Today almost 15,000 environmental groups are registered with the IRS, according to the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics (100 in Colorado alone). They are financed by foundations and corporations at the rate of $38 million a day, making environmental activism a $14 billion industry in the U.S. alone.

Some political activists never seem to tire of meddling with Colorado’s complex water laws, and with the management of our rivers.

It is an ongoing failure of academics, and the government agencies that fund them, that they cannot find solutions to America’s forest health crisis.

Which side will Colorado be on this time? Will its officials defend its water, or knuckle under to federal control?

If you thought the EPA had grown large and powerful enough already, the agency has embraced yet another mandate representing gross federal overreach.

Rural activists say they are tired of being ignored, and outvoted, by people in the large cities who are isolated from the interests of rural communities, both geographically and culturally.

The transition team recommended moving BLM’s headquarters back, and rehiring all the senior career staff that took other jobs.

Why is the New York Times writing about Colorado water? Because Wall Street investors plan to get rich by rerouting it.

One should not blame sophisticated and well-funded activists for wanting to use the current situation to push their agenda, however far-fetched it may seem.

In the next few years, many existing critical habitat designations should be re-evaluated and scaled back.

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