Posted on 05/27/2015 9:23:37 AM PDT by rktman
The EPA is on the verge of finalizing a new “Waters of the United States” regulation that would greatly expand the agency’s control over U.S. waters, and may even give the EPA the power to regulate ponds, ditches and puddles.
Republican lawmakers, however, are pushing back against the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, warning the agency may have inappropriately lobbied and worked with environmental campaign activists to inflate the support behind the agency’s water takeover.
“Given the magnitude and controversy surrounding the EPA’s rulemaking agenda, it is very troubling that EPA has engaged in a propaganda campaign to inflate the number of public comments submitted in support of specific proposed rules,” Republicans on the House Science Committee wrote in a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.
Republican concerns over the EPA teaming up with green groups to push President Barack Obama’s agenda comes after The New York Times’s Coral Davenport and Eric Lipton published an article detailing how the agency used social media and environmental activist allies to publicly promote its WOTUS rule. Lawmakers are now asking for agency documents and communications behind the EPA’s campaign to build public support. Lawmakers argue this is another troubling episode in the EPA’s history of collusion with environmental groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Restrictions limited to 8 gallons a day for us. No restrictions at all for them I’m sure.
Control the land.
Control the water.
Control the air.
Control the income.
Control the transportation.
Control the housing.
Control the elections.
Control the information.
Control the police.
Stay in power.
Stay rich.
Forever.
Is Boner going to shut this down? Pffftttt............
Well, if they want to control the puddle on my property after it rains, I could use their help. They could become part of the berm that keeps that puddle from flooding my house...
Same people, different groups.
Soon there will be water shortages all across the USA.
“If you put the Federal Government in charge of the Sahara desert, in five years there will be a shortage of sand.”..............Milton Friedman
The EPA often colludes with Eco groups and tells them to sue to overturn or modify a certain EPA rule. Then, when the EPA goes to court it doesn’t defend the agency. It mounts a nothing defense.
My guess is the EPA is in collusion with most lawsuits against it that come from Sierra Club and the like
I thought I read someplace that when this happens and the warmunists win, the taxpayers still end up footing the court costs and lawyers fees. Glad we could help.
“collusion” is the name of the regulatory game.
As EPA bureaucrats and the environmental lobby share the same goals, the two work together.
For example, government give $$$ in the form of grants for “education” or “PR” about green issues, or provides funding to them as “penalties” from lawsuits.”
The greens then use the money to sue the US Government to have judges make changes that both parties want.
Its corrupt as hell
Here is a good quote:
Ms. McCarthy’s statements also reflect the lengths to which EPA will go to continue expanding its reach and grow its bureaucracy. The agency cannot admit that it has nearly won the battle against dirty air, because thousands of government regulators could lose their jobs. (Never mind the millions of Americans who lose their jobs because of EPA regulators and regulations.) To protect its legions of workers, justify its massive taxpayer-provided budget, and expand it many times over, EPA continues to move the goal posts, by invoking environmental justice, climate change and sustainability – for which there can never be objective goals and achievements, but only political considerations and subjective “feelings.”
http://news.heartland.org/editorial/2014/09/08/epas-phony-environmental-justice-caper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3293983/posts
EPA’s Secret And Costly ‘Sue And Settle’ Collusion With Environmental Organizations
“Sue and Settle “ practices, sometimes referred to as “friendly lawsuits”, are cozy deals through which far-left radical environmental groups file lawsuits against federal agencies wherein court-ordered “consent decrees” are issued based upon a prearranged settlement agreement they collaboratively craft together in advance behind closed doors. Then, rather than allowing the entire process to play out, the agency being sued settles the lawsuit by agreeing to move forward with the requested action they and the litigants both want.
In other words, the agency throws the case, somewhat like Bre’r Rabbit agreeing to be thrown into a favorite brier-patch. A big difference however, is that in this case, Farmer McGregor andMr. Rabbit were partners in the scam from the beginning. It’s the unwary American public that actually does get caught in the thorns.
” thousands of government regulators”. Maybe affiliated with afscme which I pronounce afscumees. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Think they want the truth revealed?
One will have to get EPA permits after tremendous fee payments before one can change the lock on the front door or step on the lawn if EPA can show, or maybe just assert, that there is water somewhere on the lot, in the ground or in pipes or in the refrigerator.
Control the land.
Control the water.
Control the air.
Control the income.
Control the transportation.
Control the housing.
Control the elections.
Control the information.
Control the police.
Total control of the water which EPA is seeking gives EPA’s boss all the rest of that list.
they will require you to deconstruct the “unnatural” berm.
No, no, the berm was there originally. It's just a little taller...
“they will require you to deconstruct the ‘unnatural’ berm.”
Hmmm, if I understood the original posting correctly, this “taller” berm would be very natural and decomposing quickly. Not sure if the smell would pass EPA standards, though. . . .
Well, it is where the dog does her business...
Or it may not---which is it?
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