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.
EPA follow the Rules that are in place now. EPA obey the LAW!!!
Only conservative rubes think judicial rulings should be obeyed apparently
From the most lawless administration and its tail wagging lacky agencies since Nixon. Nothing is shocking anymore. .
The rule of law is dead.
Long live our bureaucratic overlords.
I hope this judge hauls their a***es to jail. NOW
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).
Commies and Nazis only cheer court decisions when they stick it to the American people. If a decision goes against them, they just blow it off.
you don’t get it......under the tyranny, EPA is the law
Nothing prevents ANY STATE from Arresting and Prosecuting every EPA thug in their State for Felony Extortion, remand them in to custody and When Convicted, give them the Max Sentence, FORCE THE MUSLIM TO PARDON THEM!
Despite the presumption of sarcasm, may they live to be 1000 and suffer endless fits of dysentery for the rest of their lives.
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
“If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
That's mighty big of them considering that, you know, they CAN'T! Course, with this administration, even complying with a court order is probably not to be taken for granted.
A lawless president and lawless bureaucrats working hand in hand to “fundamentally change America.”
Must be nice.
If the judge agrees with you, point to the judge.
If the judge doesn’t agree with you, use your middle finger to do it.
...What, exactly, did Nixon do? ...
I assume you are not joking and either weren’t around or forgot about Watergate.
He was not involved in the 3rd rate burglary of DNC as orchestrated by se ior staff members, but he controlled the massive and illegal cover up of it. His Secretary “accidentally” erased 18 minutes of incriminating evidence ( like Hillary deleted 30,000 emails, fired the Attorney Genreral who was investigating him and getting close, and committed other illegal acts and said, “ When the President does it, its not illegal.”
Its real simple. Obama and crew enforce the laws they like and ignore the laws they don’t.
It is rule by fiat, not law. We are no longer a constitutional republic. And the masses cheer him on...
Remember the quaint notion about the rule of law that we learned in grade school?
“America is a nation of laws not of men”
John Adams: “a government of laws and not of men.”
Thomas Paine: “in America, the law is king.
But now, in Obamaland the Obamatollah is the king and the king is the law.
but he controlled the massive and illegal cover up of it.....So, he stood up for his employees and took the fall. 18 minutes of erased “incriminating evidence? If they were erased, what IS the incriminating evidence? The Attorney General is his to fire, hire (pending Congessional approval) or demote. What high crime/misdemeanor did he commit? He successfully prosecuted Alger Hiss, period.
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