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.
“There are MANY somebodies in this country that NEED beatings.”
I could post this on every other article. LOL! :)
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.
Nixon proposed and signed into law the establishment of the EPA. Just like GW Smirks proposed The Department of Homeland Propaganda and Insecurity.
....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.
We are in a time of “The “Rule of Flaw”...the Flaw being LIBs.
Elections have consequences. Some elections have gigantic consequences, as we are now seeing.
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.
EPA needs to be gutted
Hillary Roddam Clinton is the poster child for that.
I predicted this. When the judge ruled, I said "So, how many divisions does the judge have."
If by gutted, you mean 'dangling from lampposts', then I agree.
It was a national HICCUP.
THIS is a national nightmare.
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?
What high crime/misdemeanor did he commit?....Nobody has elucidated on that at all, yet.
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
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