The EPA thinks that the water coming off your roof during & after a rain event is under their control. In Oregon, they fined a man for using barrels under his downspouts to contain roof runoff & then using the water in a controlled manner for his garden.
The EPA is completely out of control.
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Well said.
I was just thinking about this last night. Control the water and you control everything and everyone. You can’t control the weather, but you sure can dam everything up. The EPA is like a president overdoing executive orders. Get rid of it. Period.
I want to know what the least amount of bureaucracy America needs and I am not necessarily pro-big business because power corrupts and they all need oversight.
Money quote:
“With the constant expansion of the regulatory state since the 1930s, Americans have gotten used to having to obey (although sometimes battle) rules decreed by those bureaucrats. It is a bad habit that we should break, argues Columbia Law School professor Philip Hamburger in his powerful book Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
“His unequivocal answer is that it is unlawful.”
The problem with the argument’s legal reasoning is that such cases of “administrative laws” are simply a result of (1) Congress validly delegating powers of implementation to administrators and (2) failing to write any system of redress into those powers. The intent of Congress was a radical imposition of burdensome environmental laws; they just did it such a way that they could duck responsibility when their constituents got angry.
The key is to realize WHY Congress limited the Clean Water Act to navigable waterways: it was how Congress claimed the authority to pass such legislation in the first place. By applying it to “navigable waterways,” they are invoking the Commerce clause. The outrage is that states’ attorney generals aren’t defending state territory from federal domination, and leaving these poor farmers to fend for themselves.
At the rate they are going, if you break out in a heavy sweat on a hot and muggy day, you will need a federal permit and a remediation plan, if they don't just let you off with a fine.
The left thinks this is just peachy. After all, the EPA already claims jurisdiction over the carbon cycle, so it can theoretically regulate anything that grows, breathes, dies and decays, or burns. If your goal is a comprehensively federally regulated society in which government can control any activity it desires, this is a blank check, which is what our would be dictators desire.