Nixon should have been impeached for bringing this un-American agency into existence. The EPA is the best argument for the danger of the federal government having any access to private property .the old “nose of the camel” writ large.
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The definition of wetlands is getting so broad it almost includes swimming pools.
politics are local....
My neighborhood is a karst region. That is there are collapsed caverns that become sink holes. The sinks drain to the still existing caves that drain under ground to the river.
Then comes one neighborhood sink owner that hires a contrctor to clean and reseed the lawn. Prt of that effort involved dozing the saplings and sink sides. Dirt and debris were deposited at the bottom, clogging the drain. The sink is now a substantial pond. It never goes away and after the winter rains, is now pretty deep.
We have a few deer that come out all over the neighborhood at night. Days are spent in any one of several wooded sinks. They come to the new pond to drink.
The neighbor created a wetland
Was there ever an effort to shut down the EPA? There’s nothing Constitutional about them at all.
The section of the Constitution that is now being worked on is Section 8. Land use ordinances.
And while I have yet to see the finished work, I do know that it makes all land use ordinances local to the govt entity in which the land resides. the only land the Republic will have control over is land that it owns. For the most part land in a city will have land ordinances that are voted on by the people of that municipality, same with land in the county.
As it, the proposed Constitution, is completed it is posted on www.MaineTV.net
Mr brother just bought a nice 20 ac piece of land that has about a 1.5 acre pond on it. Fortunately (maybe) he is an attorney so presumably he can see the ramifications better than I can/do, but the idea that a powerful and power hungry Federal agency will be seeking plenary power over his land and this pond is daunting.
This is why it is a priority for a Republican congress to not only shut the EPA down, for power grabs like CO2 regulation and intrastate water, etc., etc., it must also *reverse* most of the federal land grabs of the last 100 years. Turn that state land back to the states.
And give a good slapping to the federal judges that have ruled in favor of it in the past.