Nachum, please don’t take the following rant personally.
If Constitution-ignorant patriots would take the time to read the Constitution then they would know how to stop the EPA, and other federal regulatory agencies, dead in their tracks.
To begin with, the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate environmental issues. So the feds have no constitutional authority to regulate the environment anyway.
Next, even if the states had delegated to Congress the specific power to regulate the environment, the Founding States wrote the first numbered clauses of the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all legislative powers of the federal government are vested in the elected members of Congress.
So not only has Congress violated Sections 1-3 of Article I, wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters, by establishing constitutionally undefined regulatory agencies like the EPA, but again, corrupt Congress never had the power to regulate the environment even if it could delegate regulatory powers.
The bottom line is that federal regulatory agencies like the EPA are a smoke-and-mirrors way for corrupt Congress to bypass its Article V requirement to petition the states to ratify amendments to the Constitution which would grant Congress specific new powers.
Again, it doesn’t help the situation when patriots don’t know the Constitution.
It’s a good rant!
“The States” haven’t had a voice in Gummint since the 17th amendment.