Posted on 12/19/2016 8:19:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Obama administration has finalized rules designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation’s streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans who vowed to overturn it under President-elect Donald Trump.
The Interior Department said Monday the rule will protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests, preventing debris from coal mining from being dumped into nearby waters. …
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Laughable
If really needed (following review objectively by unbiased scientists), yes. If just another set of regulations to strangle the coal industry, no.
...Interior officials said the rule would cause only modest job losses in coal country....
With the stroke of his pen, Obama destroys jobs. Trump like to create them. Would the Interior Dept. employees call the jobs lost “modest” if they were theirs lost??
The former is impossible, not to mention not the purview of the federal government per the Constitution.
The latter is of course the obvious objective, per Obama’s “necessarily skyrocket” rhetoric.
The loss of a single executive bureaucracy job is of course never “modest”—per executive bureaucrats, whose existence is unconstitutional.
I thought it was Congress's job to pass laws. Except in dictatorships.
Little late for that.
They all turned orange, like, sixty years ago.
Hey, I got an idea- let’s just make it illegal to pollute.
Any where, any place.
If you make a mess, you clean it up. If it is egregious or deliberate, you go to jail.
See? I’ve just done everything we can possibly do to fix ‘climate change’.
And it was easy, and didn’t require $Billions spent on climate conferences with world leaders.
This is just Obama's and the media's description of the regulations. I imagine they far surpass this objective.
Protection of inland streams was incorporated in the original Office of Surface Mining regulations back in ‘78.
You meant, "If really needed following...yes" to be followed by "AND if enacted into law by the People through their Representatives in Congress assembled", right?
no- but now they will all scream about how the republicans want to ‘rape mother earth’ and they will paint the GOP as evil ‘anti-environment thugs’
“Climate change” has nothing to do with pollution, though. And there is no single definition of “pollution”.
There’s that whole Tenth Amendment thing too; I don’t see that such a thing is part of Article 1’s delegated powers.
I thought it was Congress’s job to pass laws. Except in dictatorships.
This is what few understand.
Congress has given regulatory agency the right to pass “regulations” that have the force of law. So in effect, congress did pass on the regulation.
This needs to be changed.
The first Moron, after 8 years is still unaware that he is irrelevant.
All his last-minute gestures of "leadership" are embarrassingly meaningless, and they will be instantly eliminated or replaced.
I talked to my cat and he agreed.
It ain't rocket science.
The best way to protect any stream near any mine is to keep the EPA away from them!
Protection of inland streams is not among the Executive enumerated Constitutional powers. Only navigable waters are.
Amendments IX and X will be at the forefront of future bureaucratic inland non-navigable stream management of what is clearly a state function to be managed by the States within and among themselves.
Restore the Constitution!
Ignore and undo everything the "American-Kenyan's" attempt to 'fundamentally transform' the greatest nation on earth...
What can you call the most ignorant, delusional, inept, arrogant Muslim-African on earth?
There must be a special word to describe fraud and deceit by a foreigner to assert the ability to claim eligibility to run for the Nation's highest political office?
And how about his enablers? Starting with Nancy Pelosi--- straight up treason for "certifying" Obama's eligibility to run for the office without the slightest attempt to verify the claim.
Compounded by the entire membership of Congress, including the GOPe for turning a blind eye to the enormous historic fraud.
If Barack's Long form Birth Certificate was "lost" by the territory of Hawaii, it never existed. The territory of Hawaii was (is?) a most corrupt and incompetent territory/State.
Has anyone else of record claimed and been recognized as a citizen without an existing, dated recorded Long Form Birth Certificate? EVER??
Having multiple Social Security numbers is or should be a felony. Barack Hussein Obama has at least three...There is no statute of limitation.
Fraudulently claiming and obtaining free University tuition as a foreign Student is a felony. Or should be. There is no statute of limitation for that, either.
There certainly should be a Congressional Committee to investigate and prosecute this endless string of crimes.
Clearly Unconstitutional.
Unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats cannot make laws. Senators and House members cannot "assign" their Congressional responsibilities and powers to unelected bureaucrats.
Any further attempts to do so should make any and all members of the bicameral Congress subject to prosecution and removal, if not out right jail time.
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