Posted on 09/01/2014 6:22:21 AM PDT by george76
EPA would regulate most Md waters .
A new rule proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
The proposed Waters of the United States rule, which would give the EPA jurisdiction over millions of miles of streams across the United States under the Clean Water Act, has generated bipartisan backlash in both chambers of Congress.
A letter to the EPA from Democratic and Republican House members stated, Although your agencies have maintained that the rule is narrow and clarifies CWA jurisdiction, it in face aggressively expands federal authority under the CWA while bypassing Congress and creating unnecessary ambiguity.
The letter goes on to say, The rule would place features such as ditches, ephemeral drainages, ponds (natural or man-made, prairie potholes, seeps, flood plains, and other occasionally or seasonally wet areas under federal control.
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdogwire.com ...
This must be stopped. Ask Anthony Brown and Larry Hogan what they plan to do to stand up to it.
Maryland is the only state that has a “Rain Tax” — which they say is mandated by the EPA, and non-profits such as churches are not exempt.
“Larry Hogan told residents of a retirement community Tuesday night that he wants to eliminate all state income taxes on pensions before the end of his administration...’We don’t have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control,’”
Maryland Ping
This is a lie. The sentence should read:
The proposed Waters of the United States rule, which would give the EPA jurisdiction over every square of ground receiving precipitation across the United States...
| With this rule, they plan to regulate groundwater, runoff, private wells, even what comes off your roof. The remedies are designed to drive you out of your home into one of their "stack-n-pack" sustainable hovels (in which the bureaucrats' pensions are heavily invested). This is tyranny of the worst kind.
How can an agency oversee something when it doesn't even know what it is?
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