Posted on 05/28/2015 6:37:28 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Obamas administration on Wednesday claimed dominion over all of Americas streams, creeks, rills, ditches, brooks, rivulets, burns, tributaries, criks, wetlands perhaps even puddles in a sweeping move to assert unilateral federal authority.
The Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, says it has the authority to control all waterways within the United States and will exercise that authority. Were finalizing a clean water rule to protect the streams and the wetlands that one in three Americans rely on for drinking water. And were doing that without creating any new permitting requirements and maintaining all previous exemptions and exclusions, EPA head Gina McCarthy told reporters Wednesday.
The moves comes as part of the Clean Water Act and federal officials say they are simply trying to help businesses comply with regulations.
This rule is about clarification, and in fact, were adding exclusions for features like artificial lakes and ponds, water-filled depressions from constructions and grass swales, McCarthy said. This rule will make it easier to identify protected waters and will make those protections consistent with the law as well as the latest peer-reviewed science. This rule is based on science.
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Thanks Sarge.
Thanks Sarge.
Fedzilla takes another bite out of freedom.
Don’t try to hold your breath until Republicans do something about this.
This is now on the 'fast track'.
It is the American people that the Democrat Party is at war against/with. Them and them alone in the universe. The American refuse to accept this fact.
They [Republican Party] not only do everything you mentioned, they actively aid and abet. In fact, they have worn out their shoulder joints from stabbing Conservatives in the back.
Dump the EPA!!
We've been screwed since November 4, 2014 by all the "lesser of two evils" voters.
How you package the spending bills is one way to do it. Republicans are reluctant to wield the power they have. That’s because they too like big government.
In fact, they have worn out their shoulder joints from stabbing Conservatives in the back.
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Good way to put it. One would think that the GOP base would have figured this out by now. The fact that they haven’t, and still keep voting for them, speaks volumes.
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