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EPA says new clean water rules are still in effect even though judge suspended them
Hotair ^ | 08/30/2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/29/2015 5:06:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The very same crew which recently dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge out of an abandoned mine and turned the Animas River in Colorado the color of a yellow banded poison dart frog for roughly a week has just issued a whole new set of rules to “protect” small pools of water. They would also like you to know that these rules are going into effect even though a federal judge put them on hold in 13 states, too. This new batch of regulations is going to “protect” bodies of water which may include the ditch in front of your driveway or that persistent soggy patch in your back yard. (Fox News)

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is going forward with a new federal rule to protect small streams, tributaries and wetlands, despite a court ruling that blocked the measure in 13 central and Western states.

The EPA says the rule, which took effect Friday in more than three dozen states, will safeguard drinking water for millions of Americans.

Opponents pledged to continue to fight the rule, emboldened by a federal court decision Thursday that blocked it from Alaska to Arkansas.

These rules were not suddenly rushed out in response to the agency’s own recent hijinks in an effort to make sure nobody else pulls such a boneheaded maneuver. They’ve been in the works for quite a while and a coalition of people ranging from farmers to landowners to states’ rights advocates have been howling about them. Though they are supposedly in place to prevent pollution in smaller tributary streams which feed into larger waterways, the rules are so broadly written that they could apply to virtually anyplace where water pools on the surface of the earth, leading to a permitting nightmare for the landowner if they want to do so much as landscape the area for drainage. The rules have been viewed as being so odius that the Farm Bureau started a massive push to trim them back down in scope. And finally a federal judge hearing the case for plaintiffs in 13 states agreed to put them on hold. (Greeley Tribune)

The federal ruling Thursday was in North Dakota, where officials from that state and 12 others argued the new guidelines are overly broad and infringe on their sovereignty. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo agreed that they might have a case, issuing a temporary injunction.

The EPA said after the ruling that it would not implement the new rules in those 13 states — Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.

Several other lawsuits remain, from other states and also from farm and business groups.

You might think that having a judge shut the process down in more than one quarter of the country might give the agency pause. But apparently not… it’s full steam ahead in all of the states where they weren’t expressly forbidden to move forward. But how does that work in legal terms? Aren’t they a federal agency which is supposed to be making rules for the entire nation? If their regulations are shut down in part of the country, how can they be enforced in the rest?

Don’t worry yourselves. I’m sure the Justice Department will weigh in on this any minute now and reassure us that the EPA can do whatever it wants. Now if you’ll excuse them, they have a few more miles of river to dredge up and a bunch of mercury to hide back in a mine shaft.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska; US: Arizona; US: Arkansas; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: Idaho; US: Missouri; US: Montana; US: Nebraska; US: Nevada; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: North Dakota; US: Oregon; US: South Dakota; US: Texas; US: Washington; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: cleanwateract; epa; epaoutofcontrol; erinbrockovich; goldkingmine; idaho; judge; navajonation; tyranny; water
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To: SeekAndFind; DiogenesLamp

“There are MANY somebodies in this country that NEED beatings.”

I could post this on every other article. LOL! :)


21 posted on 08/29/2015 6:00:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: Sasparilla; Safetgiver
His Secretary “accidentally” erased 18 minutes of incriminating evidence

Correction:

His secretary, Rose Mary Woods, admitted to mistakenly making a single erasure of 4½ to 5 minutes on the tape while making a phone call but she strongly denied making the entire 18½ minute erasure. Later she conceded that she may have erased between 5½ and 6 minutes of the tape, but no more than that.

Nixon's critics allege that the erased portion contained incriminating evidence pertaining to the Watergate cover-up but of course they had no way of knowing what was really said on the erased portion of the tape.

No one outside of the Nixon inner circle could ever know what actually was on the missing 18½ minutes or exactly how and by whom the eull erasure occurred.


22 posted on 08/29/2015 6:11:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: Safetgiver
What, exactly, did Nixon do? He thought about about a few things, never followed through and was hounded out of office. I think the worst thing he did was to prosecute Alger Hiss, which pissed off the Democrats (Communists).

Nixon proposed and signed into law the establishment of the EPA. Just like GW Smirks proposed The Department of Homeland Propaganda and Insecurity.

23 posted on 08/29/2015 6:23:14 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Safetgiver

....So, he stood up for his employees and took the fall....
Halderman, Erlichman, John Dean, Charles Colson, Gordon Liddy, the Cubans and others didn’t go down? Nixon is ultimately responsible for the coverup. He told David Frost as much. They all fell along with Nixon because of the burglary and/or coverup. You can’t change history.
It was a national nightmare.


24 posted on 08/29/2015 6:38:11 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

We are in a time of “The “Rule of Flaw”...the Flaw being LIBs.


25 posted on 08/29/2015 6:43:26 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sasparilla

Elections have consequences. Some elections have gigantic consequences, as we are now seeing.


26 posted on 08/29/2015 6:47:28 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: eyeamok

The Won isn’t a executive of any state. He can’t pardon people for state criminal convictions. This probably comes as a shock to him, having a pen and phone and all, but he can’t.


27 posted on 08/29/2015 7:26:46 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: SeekAndFind

EPA needs to be gutted


28 posted on 08/30/2015 4:41:17 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind
No big surprise.
Marxists believe they are above the Rule of Law.
29 posted on 08/30/2015 6:11:49 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Amagi

Hillary Roddam Clinton is the poster child for that.


30 posted on 08/30/2015 6:32:14 AM PDT by sport
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To: SeekAndFind
EPA says new clean water rules are still in effect even though judge suspended them

I predicted this. When the judge ruled, I said "So, how many divisions does the judge have."

31 posted on 08/30/2015 8:42:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Lazamataz

32 posted on 08/30/2015 8:47:45 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: ronnie raygun
EPA needs to be gutted

If by gutted, you mean 'dangling from lampposts', then I agree.

33 posted on 08/30/2015 8:50:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Sasparilla
..So, he stood up for his employees and took the fall.... Halderman, Erlichman, John Dean, Charles Colson, Gordon Liddy, the Cubans and others didn’t go down? Nixon is ultimately responsible for the coverup. He told David Frost as much. They all fell along with Nixon because of the burglary and/or coverup. You can’t change history. It was a national nightmare.

It was a national HICCUP.

THIS is a national nightmare.

34 posted on 08/30/2015 8:51:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Lazamataz

RE: So, how many divisions does the judge have.

The Judges’ decision is only as good as the willingness of the DOJ to enforce it.

It is the same as the power of Congress.

When you are in contempt of court, you will be jailed because the judge has power to tell the police to jail you.

Question - what happens to you when you are held in contempt of Congress? (e.g. Lois Lerner and Eric Holder ). How many divisions does Congress have?


35 posted on 08/30/2015 9:24:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: Iron Munro

What high crime/misdemeanor did he commit?....Nobody has elucidated on that at all, yet.


36 posted on 08/30/2015 11:43:06 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver
What, exactly, did Nixon do?

The Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and instituting the EPA.

Other than that, not much. /s

38 posted on 08/30/2015 1:08:10 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
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