Posted on 01/09/2014 5:25:52 PM PST by lowbridge
Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law passed by Congress and angering state officials.
The surprise decision was made by officials of the EPA, the Department of Interior, and Department of Justice early last month, and has invoked the ire of Gov. Matt Mead, who has vowed not to honor the agency’s decision and is preparing to fight in court.
“My deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state’s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law,” Mead said in a statement. “This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?”
The EPA declared that Riverton was part of the Wind River Indian Reservation after granting a “Treatment as a State” application from the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. The tribes submit such applications to get funding for air quality monitoring under the Clean Air Act. However, this seemingly innocuous application ended up undoing the tribal boundaries set by a 1905 congressional act.
The EPA granted the tribes’ claim that the Wind River reservation extended over one million acres of land beyond what the 1905 Congressional Act established. By doing this, the agency effectively overruled an act of Congress, state officials charge.
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Everyone just needs to relax. The Indians will sell all the land back for a couple fifths of Old Crow Whiskey.
Throw into the deal a box full of winchester rifles. Or would that be treason?
Been there.
The pollution of division politics, one pogrom at the hands of another, truly evil. The EPA is an environmental loose cannon.
Time for the Sheriffs to step up. They got my support.
Article IV
Section 3
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Ah, the occutard Obama... all Soros.
what constitution… we don’t need no dirty stinking constitution.
well as I recall the stinking progressives won . the vote totals for Romney were LESS than that for McShamey. A bunch of folks sat out and said well it will get people’s attention if we get another four years of O. We have another four years of O and the catastrophe is in full progress. YES we do need conservatives but we also NEED to defeat the other side which means we need people to get into action
We made it possible by staying home or not voting in the presidential election. IF you are one of these then I will blame you. IF you are not then I hope you are getting MORE active not less
Grow up!
This has nothing to do with settling old scores with the tribes.
This is our Anti-American administration shutting down energy development by whatever means necessary.
exactly
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Kinnear and Pavillion are also towns affected by this ruling.
Time for Congress to grow some and exersize their Constitutional power. Tell the EPA to control themselves and override this travesty.
I don’t see where the EPA has the ability to take private property and put it in another political subdivision, be that a county, township, or State, much less a sovereign nation. It would be like giving Erie to Canada.
Romney might have beat McQueeg If he’d had Sarah. Without her, the showing would have been far worse.
Precisely.
HHC’s husband
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