The agencies are given broad authority to make up regulations to enforce those laws. These bureaucrats need to justify their existence so they make up problems and then regulations to solve those problems, going way over the intent of the law. I don’t know, but I doubt if everyone that voted for the clean air and water acts thought it would turn into a war on global warming and a person not being able to build a fish pond on his own property.
No, of course not, but they were indifferent to the consequences of the laws they wrote and they did it so they could look good to LIVs.