Posted on 06/21/2010 11:28:08 AM PDT by jazminerose
Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The OPA amended the Clean Water Act (CWA) §311, including changes to spill response authorities. The language is clear and unambiguous: the President is mandated to take action to clean up the spill and mitigate or prevent damage to the environment.
Prior to the amendment, the President had “significant latitude” in outsourcing the clean up. Per the OPA, the President’s removal authority should be carried out through the “creation and implementation of facility and response plans.”
§311 further requires that the President issue regulations “establishing procedures, methods, equipment, and other requirements to prevent discharge of oil and hazardous substances from vessels and facilities and to contain such discharges.”
In other words, the President was required to have extensive plans and procedures in place in the event of a spill. And if a spill occurred, the President has sole responsibility for the cleanup and environmental protection.
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“Obama Can’t Outsource His Incompetence”
Unfortunately, he can.
And in the worst ways possible.
Napolitano, Kagan, Gibbs, Gates, etc etc etc..
True enough. But this time he’s in violation of federal law.
Yes, but don’t expect too many in the sheeple flocks to figure it out until later on.
One could look at it as Obama is showing his incompetence by those nominations.
WalpinGate!! eric holder/judge roberts friends for years...
http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2010/ag-speech-100422.html
“But this time he’s in violation of federal law.”
More accurately, he AGAIN is in violation of federal law.
This administration has been quite casual about violating constitutional provisions relating to eligibility to become president, mis-using the Commerce Clause to mandate that individuals buy health insurance coverage, ignoring well-established judicial precedents denying the federal government the power to “commandeer” states, flagrantly ignoring statutes against making job offers to influence the outcome of elections, and illegally shaking down private corporations for billions of dollars.
It’s pretty clear that “rule of law” has little meaning to this regime. The “rule of men” suits them fine, as this is the Chicago Way they’re so familiar with.
Oh please, Obama can’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag.
This is the real problem. It’s up to us to get the word out far & wide.
The libtards know how to get their propaganda out, we have to be just as aggressive in getting the truth out.
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=2c6353ba172fea79989fb7899e6c3360&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title40/40cfr300_main_02.tpl
Can we say dropped the ball, boys and girls?
Those people are obama’s flying monkeys, and like the wicked witch, without obama they are toothless has-beens. It’s the head of the snake you have to worry about...everything else is just a rattle.
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