Tough new pollution controls will be imposed on thousands of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands under a proposal by President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. The new rules could make it into federal regulation by the end of the year, The Washington Post reported.
The issue over what streams and wetlands should fall under the Clean Water Act has simmered for a decade. The George W. Bush administration issued rules in 2003 and 2008 to limit the reach of the act and the Supreme Court has weighed in twice, according to the Post.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson downplayed the extent of the new rules, saying, “This is not some massive increase, as far as we can tell.” Environmentalists hailed the decision but livestock owners and builders said it will impose an economic burden.
The House GOP included a provision to block the EPA from instituting the rules in their continuing budget resolution this spring but later dropped it, the Post reported.
Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s environment subcommittee Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, expressed disappointment with the EPA.
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the EPA is a joke because the money being used to reseach and document should be going to things like govenment envirnmental cleanup programs but they just continue to spread it into the soil and hide it.the larger agencies are the ones that polute the most.
ReplyDeleteyour payin 35% for the best govt oversight money can buy,but if your looking for real results,dont hold your breath...
ReplyDeleteLets just devalue all of the waterfront property. There are so many STUPID restrictions now that it is impossible to build the home that you want.
ReplyDeleteThe EPA is the new Gestappo of the libtards and Obama.
ReplyDeleteMore control and restrictions all in the false name of environmentalism
who cares the only ones worried are those that speculated on water front property and thought it was an easy deal.....its funny....guess what....property rights aint what they use to be and the tax base does not want to support insider connected speculators that think that ownership alone trumps law and the good of surrounding charters......everyone wants to get nigger rich with no regard to forth right and sustainable development
ReplyDelete7:47 This is not about speculators/developers. Most people who live on the water worked hard to purchase that property and should be able to use it as they see fit. You should not be so angry and try working hard yourself and maybe you could have nice things too. Oh, "sustainable development" nice green nonsense jargon!
ReplyDeleteEPA is one agency that needs to be cut, disbanded, de-funded and forgotten about.
ReplyDeleteForming that agency was a nice gesture but turns out it was a big mistake.
(like the last presidential election)