As someone who enjoys hiking and snowshoeing and other outdoorsy things, I just think of the above whenever I hear sanctimonious talk from envirowhackos about Trump.
Posted on 12/11/2018 8:22:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Trump administration is poised to withdraw federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands across the country, making good on President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to weaken landmark water rules long resented by some developers, farmers and oil, gas and mining executives.
Environmental groups said the Trump administration proposal would have a sweeping impact on how the country safeguards the nation’s waterways, scaling back not just a 2015 Obama administration interpretation of federal jurisdiction over the nation’s waters, but also how federal agencies enforce the 1972 Clean Water Act. […]
The changes would affect what waterways and wetlands fall under jurisdiction of the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A set of White House talking points obtained by The Associated Press last week said the Trump administration would remove federal protections for wetlands nationally unless they are connected to another federally protected waterway, and for streams, creeks, washes and ditches that run only during rains or snow melt.
Jan Goldman-Carter of the National Wildlife Federation said the move could remove federal protections for millions of miles of wetlands and waterways, leaving them more vulnerable to destruction by developers and farmers or to oil spills, fertilizer runoff and other pollutants. …
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Ping.
Like that’s a bad thing.
THIS is winning.
THIS is what we voted for.
If the radical environmentalists had their way the American economy would go back to being almost exclusively agrarian, and as they are doing today to farmers, imposing stiff regulations on what and where they can put crops and regulating the amounts of water they can use.:
More WINNING......
Good. That means the puddle in my back yard won’t be a wetlands preserve every time it rains.
As someone who enjoys hiking and snowshoeing and other outdoorsy things, I just think of the above whenever I hear sanctimonious talk from envirowhackos about Trump.
Finally! I can throw my used batteries in my creek!
:-D
Indeed, driving a stake through the heart of the Vampire State.
DEFUND THE EPA ENTIRELY
It has become a gestapo-like agency who filled with leftists who think they have final authority on everything they want to proclaim part of ‘the environment’.
If you spit in your driveway, they can call it a ‘wetland’ and move to take control of it and prevent you from driving your car over it.
I have two streams that, after a couple of weeks of no rain, will dry up. This is just another thing I won’t have to worry about.
“Good, no more EPA ruling a puddle is subject to Federal oversight.”
We’ve spent WAY too long holding our breath, wondering if our tiny creek that flows through the pasture giving drinking water to the Heifers, was going to be declared a Wetland and be seized by the Feds.
So HAPPY to read this! MAGA! :)
Did the Judges give him permission ?
" ... making good on President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to weaken landmark water rules long resented by some developers, farmers and oil, gas and mining executives."
No mention of civil libertarians who have been appalled by this FEDERAL Over-reach, giving minute-to-minute control BY REGULATION, not law, to the EPA!
I didn’t know the AP did opinion pieces/editorials....
When I got rid of my last 35” TV, I literally broke it up into manageable pieces, being careful not to breath the dust when I imploded the picture tube, and dumped it in my curbside trash, over a few weeks.
My last 50” flatscreen got a similar treatment, but I still have a layer or two of the screen behind the “ugly stuff” barrier.
I do dispose of batteries at battery disposal locations.
The change of rules at the federal level will result in many Left/Liberal states assuming more and deeper regulation of waterways on their end, to their economic detriment. More resttrictive state rules will be part of higher costs in those states, sending more business and investment decisions to other states. Federalism at work.
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