The EPA is about to unleash a huge amount of regulations that would expand their power far beyond what it ever has.
This would include giving them power over water on private property.
“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”
Happy holidays from the Obama administration. Federal agencies are currently working on rolling out hundreds of environmental regulations, including major regulations that would limit emissions from power plants and expand the agency’s authority to bodies of water on private property.
On Tuesday, the White House released its regulatory agenda for the fall of 2013. It lists hundreds of pending energy and environmental regulations being crafting by executive branch agencies, including 134 regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency alone.
The EPA is currently crafting 134 major and minor regulations, according to the White House’s regulatory agenda. Seventy-six of the EPA’s pending regulations originate from the agency’s air and radiation office, including carbon-dioxide-emission limits on power plants.
Carbon-dioxide limits are a key part of President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. The EPA is set to set emissions limits that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they use carbon capture and sequestration technology. Next year, the agency will move to limit emissions from existing power plants — which could put more older coal plants out of commission.
“The proposed standards, if finalized, will establish achievable limits of carbon pollution per megawatt hour for all future units, moving the nation towards a cleaner and more efficient energy future,” the agency said in its agenda. “In 2014, EPA intends to propose standards of performance for greenhouse gas emissions from existing and modified power plant sources.”
Hundreds of coal plants that have been closed or slated for early retirement due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations, according to coal industry estimates.
“Already, EPA regulations have contributed to the closure of more than 300 coal units in 33 states,” said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
However, the agency isn’t just working on limiting emissions from coal plants. The EPA is also working on a rule that would expand the definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean Water Act to include water on private property.
Republicans have hammered the EPA’s draft water rule as the largest expansion of agency power in history.
“The EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States, including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”
The EPA’s rule is heavily supported by environmentalists who argue that it’s necessary to protecting water quality. Smaller water sources, they argue, eventually affect larger water sources that people use for recreation or their livelihood.
“It’s taking the way the Clean Water Act works back, so that it works the way water works in the real world,” Bob Wendelgass, president and CEO of Clean Water Action, told Fox News.
Shooooot. That won’t go over well. But u used to be able to build a house however you wanted. It’s your house your property. Now , gotta have inspectors, and permits. We are already controlled to much as it is. We need a revolution, or apocalypse.
James Wells they already have bans on recycling rain water in some places. Ludicrous
People we are going to have to open our eyes. Now they are using federal agents in Nevada to try to take land that is state land not even Federal land. This mans family has been on this land since the eighteen hundreds. People if the feds shoot some innocent American then we the people will have to declare war on the ones that are destroying this nation. We will not let Obama and Harry Reid or anyone take our Nation without a fight. We will have to stick together and win this fight. GOD, family, and country, I am willing to die for my country are you? Obama is going to do something soon for if the Democrats go into the November election he knows its going to be bad for the Democrats. Obama and the liberals have got us into debt over 17 trillion and he is cutting back on our military to the lowest since before Word War II . Now North and South Korea are shooting at each other, Puttin is making this little girly girl president look like a total idiot. The middle East hates us and will destroy us at the first chance they get. America is falling apart as we speak, and the Democrats and some Republicans set back and let Obama do anything he wants. And Hillary says what difference does it make, well Hillary it does make a difference people died and we didn’t do any thing at all to help them. I promise we the people will never forget, you can count on true Americans to make sure that this will never happen again. When at the Democrat convention they booed God our fate may have already been sealed just like the Titanic when the designers said even God himself could not sink her. That ship was doomed before it ever left port, it was going to sink even if it had never left port. God will not be mocked. A friend told me what he through Obama would do, and I have always said that something like this would happen. Obama is being backed into a corner and at some time before the election Obama will fine a reason to declare Marshal Law then he can go after all the peoples guns and then he would not leave the office for as long as we are in Marshal Law Obama will remain in as our Dictator and if we the people don’t do as we are told then we will be put into one of the FEMA camps like the SS troops did. There they will most likely be killed because I know if we kill our own baby’s I know they would kill troublemakers. Obama is running in fear for he knows he will be impeached if the Republicans and the tea party gets in then he knows he’s history . I and thousands of other gun owners will not let this happen without a fight , They are people training every day to stand up to the ones that try to take our guns and shells . WE WILL FIGHT TO OUR LAST BREATH TO PROTECT OUR FAMILY’S AND OUR NATION . GOD BLESS AMERICIA
What is our congress & Senate doing to stop them????????
WELL WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
The sign on my property. That states private property stay out. Is for your safety. Not mine!
comes down to money. you rent your land from the government. basically. that’s how i see it.
defund the EPA
Water as a weapon against We the American People is just wrong, we are but an island surrounded by water and they want to user it as a weapon against us. WRONG
it needs to stop