Environmentalists win dead zone round against EPA

Associated Press ^ | Sep 23, 2013 7:21 PM EDT | Janet McConnaughey

[Olog-hai]

Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico and problems in other bodies of water.

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey in New Orleans gave the Environmental Protection Agency six months to decide whether to set Clean Water Act standards for nitrogen and phosphorous in all U.S. waterways or explain why they’re not needed. The EPA describes the nutrients on its website as “one of America’s most widespread, costly and challenging environmental problems,” affecting every state. …

[george76]

The issue is never the issue.

The real issue is always the revolution.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Southack]

The EPA loses these cases on purpose.

[rottndog]

The EPA loses these cases on purpose.

Yup...a lot of governments will lose a case on purpose, and then enter into a long term consent decree from the court, whereby all sorts of things can be implemented through judicial decree completely bypassing the legislative process.

[Vince Ferrer]

Not that this is important, but there already is a solution to nitrate fertilizer running off of farmland.

World changing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air

[Graewoulf]

I, Obamanation zombie, _________________________________, do hereby pledge to work for the Utopian Glory of Obamanation “- - - toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate - - - “ _____________________________, _______________________________________________________________________________________, _____________________________________________________________________________, ______________________________________________________________________________,____________________________________, ___________________________________, and of course __________________________________________________, and ___________________________________.

[RightGeek]

They killed a large chunk of California agriculture. Now they are trying for the Midwest.

[Finny]

This is the tip of the ice berg. Multiply its variations in ocean fishing, crop farming, livestock ranching, dairy production, wineries ... not to mention coal and oil and nuclear energy production ... and you see a disturbing seizure of Americans' rights to create the things living man is and has always been entitled to -- food and energy so he can thrive. Our government has the audacity to take that out of our hands and put it ... where?

The earth is pretty resilient and so are we, but the earth is a gazillion times more resilient than we are. We are less than flecks of dust off the merest pipsqueaks in context. Tomorrow the Yellowstone Caldera could blow (as it will sooner or later, again) and cover half the continental US in several feet of ash. Then where would all these environmental concerns be in the rush to handle the energy needs of helping people survive?

We humans most always feed and clothe and equip ourselves without destroying our own environment. Big deal -- been doing it for the last several thousand years -- if we didn't, we'd be dead. We have better technology. That's the only dif. Government lusts after this excuse to take over for "our" own good.

Americans are sick of being made outlaws by their own government.

Anybody noticing all the American flags up all over the place? Something is brewing, people are stirring. There is a common sentiment united in those flags that trandscends Democrat or Republican.

[george76]

<< judicial decree completely bypassing the legislative process. >>

and avoids public notices / hearings / comments / input.