Patriots do not understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate the environment. But even if the states had delegated such powers to the feds, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal beaurocrats. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative / regulatory powers whether it wants it or not. And by delegating such powers to non-elected bureaucrats, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the statutes referenced above.
What patriots need to do to get the unconstitutionally big federal government off of their backs is the following imo. Once patriots get themselves up to speed with the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, they need to enlighten state lawmakers, who are probably as constitutionally clueless as the people who elected them, with the federal government's constitutionally limited powers. Then patriots and state lawmakers can work as a team to stop Congress from regulating state power issues, such as the environment, which the feds have no constitutional authority to address.
Note that the states can always amend the Constitution to delegate to Congress the specific power to protect the environment should the states decide that doing so is the best approach to doing so.
Sorry for the double post.