The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 to address legitimate concerns regarding pollution and contaminants that were potentially dangerous and needed to be managed.
Since then, however, it has become a rogue federal agency of some 18,000 employees issuing unconstitutional mandates and living off of huge, unreasonable fines against businesses and individuals that it targets, and that do not have the means to fight the out-of-control behemoth. The EPA levied a fine against the Wal-Mart Corporation of $110 million for the improper disposal of pesticide products returned to their stores, and the list goes on.
Another story in the news deals with a 77-year old Montana resident who simply wanted to provide watering holes on his property for his horses and to protect his property from fire. The EPA instead has decided to make an example of the senior citizen and to completely destroy his life.
Read more of this outrageous story on page 2:
SUCH SCUMBAGS!
WHAT? WHY?
Lol amazing all the criminals starting with Killery in our government spend zero time for their crimes yet this man sits in jail wow unbelievable SAD
Ridiculous.
More government overreach !!
What?
The Heavy Hand Of Government.
This is part of the Obama land grabbing that had spread across our country.
President Trump is already working on this issue!
Not the heavy hand of government but the stupidity of Robert Johnson. The article does not accurately give the whole case. In this case, the EPA was correct in its protection of the clean water and of federal property.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/basin-man-convicted-clean-water-act-violations-and-destruction-us-property
I should mention that my congressman Rick Allen (R. GA12) authored a bill to kill the Clean Water Act. It has passed the Congress. This means that people up stream of Augusta can pollute our creeks, streams, and rivers all they want.
Is this making America Great Again? Or just turning the clock back to the bad old 1970s?
Ok, the not so heavy hand of government. Point taken.