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Posted on 06/27/2011 3:23:26 PM PDT by EBH
U.S. EPA warned of the potential dire consequences of legislation being fast-tracked through the House that would give states final say on rules concerning water, wetlands and mountaintop-removal mining.
In a four-page legal analysis (pdf), EPA said the measure (H.R. 2018 (pdf)) sponsored by House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) and ranking member Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) "would overturn almost 40 years of federal legislation by preventing EPA from protecting public health and water quality."
GOP House leaders expect to bring the bill to a floor vote this summer.
EPA said the Mica-Rahall bill would "significantly undermine" the agency's role of overseeing states' establishment and enforcement of water pollution limits and permits. It said the measure would hinder EPA's ability to intervene on behalf of downstream states harmed by pollution coming from a state upstream. And it said the bill would prevent EPA from protecting local communities from ill-conceived mountaintop-removal and similar projects allowed to go forward under Army Corps of Engineers-issued permits.
"This would fundamentally disrupt the balance established by the original [Clean Water Act] in 1972 -- a law that carefully constructed complementary roles for EPA, the Corps, and states," the analysis said.
...At its core, the bill would prevent EPA from reversing or overruling previously issued approval of state water quality limits, permitting authority, or permits to dredge and fill waterways or wetlands.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well, that would be a good start.
Numbers two and three would be the Clean Air Act and TSCA.
Yup. The only way to meet it’s goals under the current laws is to destroy human existence. There is no consideration of solid science, cost, or impact on business and jobs. The laws are out of whack and need to be put back into balance.
The EPA is another agency usurping states rights. The feds have no constitutional authority to regulate all that they do.
The Gestapo EPA has become about irrelevant as the Gestapo TSA....both need to be shutdown immediately. =.=
Of course the EPA is against any reduction in its power and authority, but you don’t ask the barber if you need a haircut.
Nope, job #1 for any EPA employee in my administration - Find another job.
And this is a bad thing?
“I often think the liberals cut that which publicly hurts the most. In doing that, they create a guilty party for the next round of cuts.
Sort of like when they cut the police and fire department, before the cut the desk jockey. The other day I saw 2 trucks and 8 guys to install small 10x17 signs onto existing poles.
I almost wanted to pull over and “fire” or pink-slip seven of them as taxpayer waste.”
These people are useless.
Watch any of the Subaru TV ads. The recent ones show some liberal looking couple out hiking or what not coming back to their Subaru, which has described their cars as the "original SUV alternative" in the past.
Almost every person that I know who drives a Subaru is a lib, with the usual assortmet of bumper stickers.
End the EPA!! Party like its 1775!
Don’t forget that that ONCE was on the ground.
While it might pass the Senate it probably won’t come to a vote. If it should pass the Senate then Urkel will have to veto it which might cost him a few votes as the economy continues to flounder and it will.
That is on heck of an argument.
And reduce a major source of greavences among the States.
Leave it to a New Yorker Tim Bishop to assault our freedom by defending this repressive usurpation.
The State of New York does not belong in a federation of free states.
“EPA budget cuts put states in bind
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/environment/epa-budget-cuts-put-states-in-bind/2011/06/08/AGbVpYdH_story.html
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States are perfectly capable of raising their own taxes and picking and choosing what functions are both important and acceptable to their people. No State is entitled to Federal money for any propose other then to provide for it’s defense against foreign threats.
Tell me something Gen, would you rather have 2 wacko groups of hippies trying to suppress your freedom and natural rights in the name of the “environment” or one?
I recon what your say is true of many if not most State EPA’s but it don’t much matter does it. Right now they both have the power to kill the local economy and suppress peoples rights.
And the downside is????
He really thinks states can’t protect clear water and air? The EPA are pikers compared to CA environmental regs.
Eliminate the EPA!
Problem solved!
(TOTALLY "borrowed" from another FReeper)
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