The folks at the EPA routinely go out of their way to make life difficult and more expensive for Americans. The latest lunacy is how they’re regulating water. This example comes out of Virginia, but these things are going on everywhere.
On Friday, Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II appeared in federal district court in Alexandria to contest the EPA’s use of the Clean Water Act to punish Virginia and Fairfax County for sending too much water into a watershed. “These regulations are expensive, cumbersome and incredibly difficult to implement,” Mr. Cuccinelli said. “And if we can’t stop this from happening in Fairfax County, it’s bound to happen across the state over and over again and at a huge price tag to the taxpayers of the commonwealth.”
The EPA’s latest action is a classic example of how Washington agencies constantly expand their purpose. Congress first adopts legislation bearing a title nobody could reasonably oppose — who’s against clean water? Over time, the courts and bureaucrats systematically extend the meaning of formerly innocuous definitions. Now instead of keeping lead out of drinking water, the agency is keeping water out of creeks.
Specifically, the agency has established a set of limits for the amount of water that can flow into Accotink Creek, which runs through Fairfax County and drains into the Potomac. The Virginia Department of Transportation and the county are on the hook for storm water that falls from the sky onto county and city roads. This water then flows into storm drains that empty into the creek. EPA hypothesizes that heavy water flows stir up “sediment,” which does fall under the Clean Water Act’s definitions. Instead of going after sediment levels directly, however, EPA has declared it can go ahead and directly target water-flow levels, which Mr. Cuccinelli says goes too far in pushing the jurisdictional envelope.
Read the whole thing, this could cost the people of Virginia hundreds of millions of dollars. But what do you expect from an agency that glorifies killers like Che Guevara.
We have become far too civilized.
People like those at the EPA have always been with us, but we used to tar and feather them and then ride thme out of town on a rail. But we are too civilized for that nowadays.
We used to put them in public stocks and toss rotton vegetables at them. But we are too civilized for that nowadays.
These kinds of people fully understand we are too civilized to publicly punish them nowadays. That’s why they do the lunatic things they do to us, knowing full well they will get away with it, that there are no longer any consequences for their abusing the general public.
Nowadyas we are too civilized… and too afraid.
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@lonelycon That’s #1 although there is a local contender 4 runner up. 2 avoid 1 mile of gas line thru natl park, have 7 mi thru privat land.
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I checked Merriam-Webster:
Definition of CREEK
1:chiefly British: a small inlet or bay narrower and extending farther inland than a cove
2: a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river
3 archaic: a narrow or winding passage
— up the creek : in a difficult or perplexing situation
So now I understand that creeks are in fact for waters flowing into a river that the EPA wants to define differently. But I think America fits in the last usage definition for at least the next four years.
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So mow The EPA has declared that water is a pollutant. I thought that they liked water. Not only are the criminals running the prison, the lunatics are running the asylum.
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The Governor of VA should simply tell the EPA no deal and send State Troopers to escort them out of the state.
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I have a Master of Science in Industrial Mgmt. I also hold 2 Bachelor Degrees. One in Safety Mgmt, and the other in Environmental Mgmt. The EPA offered me a job, and I told them to piss off. These ass wipes are unbelievable. They are corrupt as is the Kenyan bastard they serve.
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