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EPA land grab? Agency claims authority over more streams, wetlands
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| March 25, 2014
Posted on 03/25/2014 3:37:58 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
I guess that means that the EPA considers the big puddle in my back yard from the snow melting is a “navigable waterway.” Talk about power hunger idiocy.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:16:47 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: jazusamo
Those fortunate enough to have a seasonal or not stream or pond are generally involved in caring for the land anyway as part of their livelihoods. I doubt they need EPA nannies flicking switches at their ankles.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:18:20 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: jazusamo
The commies see the writing on the November wall and are setting their claws in while they can.
Defund, defund, defund. Let these rats lose THEIR houses, for once.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:19:26 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: Nachum
Oh, “temporary” wetlands. Everywhere except Death Valley.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:20:07 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: jazusamo
Just another incremental step toward implementation of Agenda 21.
To: i_robot73
“... Weve had (R) control of D.C., HOW many times since 1980 ...”
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Only from 2003 - 2007 but we never had 60 votes in the senate.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:23:18 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: GreyFriar
Yes, the power hungry idiots basically are trying their best to do away with the “navigable waterway” thing entirely and go around the former SCOTUS ruling.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:25:02 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
To: blueplum
Exactly, if for nothing else just to ensure that seasonal water doesn’t do damage to their property, I’ve been their and done that.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:28:39 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:49:34 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: jazusamo
Here in Michigan you can’t walk 100 yards without stepping in some kind of water.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:49:37 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: beethovenfan
Technically, they might try to claim our lands based on below ground water tables. Sorry, for the scary idea.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:52:02 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
To: DoughtyOne
And hang the EPA perps on the Capitol Steps.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:56:57 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
To: cripplecreek
Up your way and the states abutting you this could turn into a huge nightmare of abuse by the EPA.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:59:22 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
To: jazusamo
EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday that determining Clean Water Act protection for streams and wetlands became "confusing and complex" so just give us control over everything to clear things up.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:10:54 PM PDT
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: jazusamo
Yes, and this seasonal thing will affect most everyone in this nation living in rural areas. Not just rural. The Corps Of Engineers have already tried to enforce "wetlands" laws on every dry patch of earth that someone spit on once. Every curb and gutter, every lawn or vacant lot. Everywhere, really would come under their expanded jurisdiction.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:15:27 PM PDT
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: jazusamo
Michigan, Florida, and Louisiana would probably take the biggest hits. People often forget that Michigan isn't actually mitten shaped. The boundaries include a lot of water. We actually rank at the top for total percentage of the state being water.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:30:12 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: jazusamo
to further agenda 21 and force people off their land.
we gotta end this sh1t now.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:39:08 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: jazusamo
and unless we run and elect people who do more than lip service about shutting down rogue alphabet agencies, they will just let them continue on.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:40:28 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: jazusamo
that’s the entire point. and if you complain any puddles on your property...
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:41:41 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: JSDude1; DoughtyOne
Only one solution: Shut down (or radically diminish) the EPAAt one point, I was very interested in a proposal to get rid of the EPA, but it's not that simple.
Between 1955 and 1972, Congress passed a whole slew of unconstitutional laws like the Clean Air Act, the Clean Waters Restoration Act, the Air Pollution Control Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and many others.
these laws impose on the Executive Branch the duty to analyze conditions and to write and enforce regulations to carry out extremely vague mandates.
Nixon created the EPA by Executive order to simplify the tasks, which were then divided among dozens of existing agencies.
The EPA, as such, has never been authorized by Congress. If a President revoked Executive Order 15623, and the EPA ceased to exist, all the laws it is charged with enforcing would still exist, and there would spring up dozens of replacement agencies.
To remove this monster, it is necessary to start repealing the underlying statutes, no small task.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:42:45 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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