Lawmakers and land-owners are worried that the Obama regime’s newest attempt at government control of what is now private property would allow the EPA in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Energy and the Army to dictate on a never-before-seen scale everything from grazing rights, food production, animal health and the use of energy on private lands. Naturally, we are supposed to believe this shift to federal control private and state land is benign, but have these agencies proven to be benevolent in the past?
Why are farmers and lawmakers worried? The Environmental Protection Agency is requesting jurisdiction over all public and private streams in the United States that are “intermittent, seasonal and rain-dependent.”
Let that sink in for a minute:
The EPA wants control over all land that is currently owned by States or private citizens, that has rivers, streams, or creeks on it or has in the past.
The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in late March jointly released a proposed rule, Waters of the United States, in an effort to clarify which streams and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.A statement issued by the EPA says “the proposed rule will benefit businesses by increasing efficiency in determining coverage of the Clean Water Act.”
But some lawmakers strongly disagree.
According to congressional budget testimony last week, Waters of the United States would give the EPA authority over streams on private property even when the water beds have been dry, in some cases for hundreds of years.
Calling it “the biggest land grab in the history of the world,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said the “economic impact of that would be profound.”
“A community needing to build on private land that had on it one of these so-called streams that you considered a waterway under the new rule would have to travel thousands, hundreds of miles to D.C., to get approval,” Rogers said.
The congressman argued it “would absolutely freeze economic activity in this country.”
Rogers said the proposal is “proof in and of itself of the mal-intent of this administration toward the private sector.”
Civil liberties
When Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, probed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy further about how the new Waters of the United States rule would affect Americans’ civil liberties and ability to conduct business, McCarthy was unable to cite specifics.
She said the rule is currently posted on the EPA website for a 90-day commenting period and the scientific basis to support it has not been completed.
The proposed rule tinkers with the definition of “navigable” waters, which was the central point of litigation in a battle between the Supreme Court and the EPA regarding the Clean Water Act.
“We are clarifying protection for the upstream waters that are absolutely vital to downstream communities,” McCarthy said.
“Clean water is essential to every single American, from families who rely on safe places to swim and healthy fish to eat, to farmers who need abundant and reliable sources of water to grow their crops, to hunters and fishermen who depend on healthy waters for recreation and their work, and to businesses that need a steady supply of water for operations.”
Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, argued the nation’s waters and wetlands “are valuable resources that must be protected today and for future generations.”
In effect these changes would give sweeping powers over nearly any land the EPA or BLM decided to target, and we have recently seen how responsible they can be, over in Nevada at the Bundy Ranch. In a tactic that has become more and more common, these government agencies are using friendly-sounding programs established with real beneficial intents (like the Clean Water Act) as their diabolical political tools.
Source: WND
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This is not our Federal Government it is Obama’s Government and it will come to an end and then the repeal will come, of all the bull $#%&!@* laws and executive orders will come to end….
Obama and our Media in the United States, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies since 2008.
Americans Died, Hillary Clinton and Obama lied.
Obama and Holder gave weapons to the Drug Cartels with Fast and Furious, and lied about it.
Obama should have been fired the first time he wrote an Executive Order that changed our Laws.
Obama should have been fired for the invasion of Libya.
All of the world knows our Drone Attacks and our Covert War on Terror in Africa and the Middle East are wrong and our Administration is committing War Crimes by murdering innocent civiians.
Our current Administration, our current Senate, our current House, and the people in our corrupt Federal Agencies and the monsters of our Justice Department want robot cops in our streets and Drones in our skies committing the same carnage and destruction inside the United States.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Eric Holder, Joe Biden, and Barrack Obama.
Eric Holder and Barrack Obama should have been fired for their lies and the abuse of their Office after the Zimmerman verdict and their Harassment and Intimidation of Zimmerman.
Eric Holder and Barrack Obama should have been fired for their lies and the abuse of their Office after a white guy committed the Knock Out Game for trying to have our Justice Department charge him with a Hate Crime, the Knock Out Game is Terrorism each time it is committed no matter what race the Terrorist is, lock them away.
Our current Administration gave weapons and money to Iran and Egypt.
End our stupid War on Terror.
Shut down the Bureau of Land Management and the IRS.
Repeal Obamacare.
Repeal the NDAA.
Repeal the Cyber Security Bill.
End the Sanctions against Russia. The violence was funded inside the United States.
Shut down the IRS.
Shut down the Bureau of Land Management.
Shut down the NSA, EPA, CIA, and Homeland Security or take away their weapons and any power they have other than investigation, they can turn their information they gather over to State Authorites, the FBI, or the Department of Justice, they have become too corrupt to function in their current capacity.
Our government is not more important than the people of our country.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Eric Holder and Barrack Obama.
In the United States we should have the Freedom of Speech, the Freedom of Religion, and the Right to own a gun.
Joe Biden and Barrack Obama love Gun Control and War more than Adolf Hitler did.
End our stupid War on Terror.
Quit trying to start a war with China and Russia.
If NATO or the Untied States had any respect for human life they would shut down their military operations near the Ukraine and end their stupid War on Terror, today.
The National Endowment for Democracy does the work of our State Department and our CIA, they funded the violence in the Ukraine, with the blessing of the Obama Administration so NATO and the United States could work at starting World War III.
That was the same reason the CIA and Obama were supporting the Terrorists in Syria and the same reason the NSA, CIA, and Obama wanted us to bomb Syria.
Vote each of our Senators and Representatives out.
They gave us our War on Terror and since 2008 they have gave us each of the horrible things Eric Holder, Joe Biden, and Barrack Obama has wanted.
No Incumbents. They have not fired Barrack Obama and Eric Holder They allow the EPA to get as corrupt as the NSA, Bureau of Land Management, and the IRS. Vote every one of our current Senators and Representatives out.
I say lets use it as a battlefield,let the games begin.
No and Hell NO!!!!!
I think the EPA needs to go!!! Shut down the EPA and the IRS and watch us grow.
This is what the government did for the American Indian guess they have not changed at all!
Time for WE THE PEOPLE, march on Washington and throw out all the trash from top to bottom
and civil war will begin
The EPA needs to be abolished!!!! Never should have been established.