If the Environmental Protection Agency has its way, ditches and gullies on private property could be viewed as navigable waterways and regulated under the Clean Water Act.
Lawmakers, however, are working to keep that from happening, Audrey Hudson reported at Human Events on Monday.
Rep. John Mica (R-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), the ranking committee member, and Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, sent a letter to House colleagues outlining what they see as an “expansion of federal jurisdiction.”
“Never in the history of the CWA has federal regulation defined ditches and other upland features as ‘waters of the United States,’” the lawmakers wrote.
Read more at Examiner.com. By Joe Newby.
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An amazing, bold, grand power grab attempt. Read the entire article. This is an EPA power grab almost equal to their successful campaign to declare co2 a pollutant.
Essentially all run off water, and the land it runs off of, would be regulated by the EPA. it's bad enough that they can regulate how much we exhale…. did you know that? that has to be rolled back too!
I have a horror story about the Army Corps and EPA. Do you know where I could go to effectively bring this to light?
These people will soon have animal tracks holding urine classified as wetlands.
A report was made at a recent meeting, that the day after EPA got their butts kicked by the SCOTUS over the Sackett wetlands, the Sackett property was declared a wilderness area by EPA. Never heard or read anything about this from the state owned media. Has anyone heard anything about it?
As long as the POS in the white house has the ability to put people of like mind in powerful positons without
Congressional oversight these problem will continue. Osocialist is detrmined to put our nation in such a
state that it will be possible for him to try to declare martial law befor the next election and stay in the
white hosue. His policies and plans are pure socialism bent upon the destruction of our nation as we know
it and to reshape it into his version of a muslim empire. This must not and will not be tollerated by a free
society who beleiver in the the U.S. Constutition. God bless America.
It's time to tell the EPA to go to hell and the states need to step up and STOP them. They have no authority per the constitution and it's time to fight.
What’s up, everything is going nicely here and ofcourse every one is sharing data, that’s in
fact fine, keep up writing.