Posted on 12/08/2011 3:49:16 PM PST by DManA
We have written repeatedly about the EPA’s war on energy and, more generally, on economic growth. But a case that may soon make its way to the Supreme Court is, critics argue, even more extreme than anything mandated by the Agency. The case is Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. et al. v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, reversing more than 35 years of practice and statutory interpretation, that runoff of rain water from forest roads that passes through one or more pipes or culverts constitutes point source pollution that must be permitted through the EPA’s NPDES program. 640 F.3d 1063. . . . The new administrative burdens the 9th Circuit decision puts on landowners and federal and state government is staggering. The U.S. Forest Service reports there are about 378,000 road miles in our national forests and that it will need about 400,000 permits. By the most conservative estimate, adding in state and private forests nearly doubles that number. Other estimates place the total well into the millions. Simply obtaining the Forest Service’s permits will take 10 years.
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The 9th circuit need to be abolished.
These people are not Judges. They are crazy as loons.
There is certainly a war on the United States of America
and it’s being waged by the EPA.
This is insane add this to the no road initiatives
and no brush clearing and we are being set up for
massive destructive wildfires the like of which we
haven’t seen in a hundred years.
Just crazy.
All part of Agenda 21.
It takes a partnership of crazy judges and President Obama’s wrecking squad to ruin a country.
Unfortunately, I believe that they are fast moving to the point where the “war” could go hot.
John Holdren
De-development of the US
http://cnsnews.com/node/75388
Add in “Green Jobs” scam
Cass Sunstein
Sebelius
Napolitano
CAdd in queuing up the aged, unborn, disabled, dissenters and other undesirables to die soon under 0bama Deathcare, “for the children.”
And all those czars and their staffs out there in the dark. Crazier than Norma Desmond.
It's going to require a lot of rope...
We need Obama to be replaced ASAP.
Local bumper sticker:
Can’t mine it.
Can’t log it.
Can’t graze it.
Let it burn.
I’m pretty sure that Georgia-Pacific is owned by the Koch brothers. This is also probably an attack on them
If he is replaced with another socialist it won’t make one damned bit of difference.
We don’t need to compromise with them, we don’t need to get along, we don’t need to be civil, WE NEED TO CRUSH THEM! Whether you like Newt or not this is one thing I do agree with. Every agency needs to be gutted completely.
Ban Di-Hydrous Monoxide!
It’s the MAIN INGREDIENT in acid rain!
The EPA is a symptom, not the cause. Until we rewrite the:
1) Endangered Species Act
2) Clean Air Act
3) Clean Water Act
among others to put business on equal footing with the environment getting rid of the EPA is but a short term solution.
“And the EPA needs to be ripped up by the roots, and the earth beneath it salted.”
I could forgive a lot in a candidate that would make THAT promise.
And can you imagine the impact on DC, if they literally blew up the building and salted the ground?
Romney would be the worst of the lot along with a couple of the minor players. Newt or Perry would both be a huge improvement.
“All part of Agenda 21.”
Many people think it will stop if we elect a Republican administration. I don’t.
Jerimiah Wright almost had it right. He should have said,,, "elect obama" and you will think GOD damned America
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