The federal government can no longer turn a drainage ditch into a regulated waterway as the Supreme Court decided in Sackett v. EPA that attempts by the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded their regulatory power.
“Thank goodness common sense is being restored somewhere in America. No one in their right mind would consider a drainage ditch on a farm to be a regulable body of water under the Clean Water Act, yet federal regulators subjected a couple in Idaho to $40,000 a day fines over whether they could operate farming activity around a ditch.
Prior to the Supreme Court opinion, the EPA interpretation of the Clean Water Act effectively gave the federal government operational control of much of the land in America.
–Rick Manning, President, Americans for Limited Government
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Federal leftard over-reach! Vote democrat/communist….lose your rights.
LOL at the obvious party sheep who didn’t do their homework. The GOP held both houses of congress in 2015 when that rule was passed by the EPA, and they did what to stop it? BTW, ranting and raving on fox news using fear to drive donations doesn’t count as doing anything. As a cherry on top, it was a majority conservative supreme court decision from 2006 that the former rule was based on in the first place.
Guy, the controversy goes back much farther than that. I became embroiled in it in the mid-1990s when I was farming. For some years prior, there were stories of farmers whose crop land was declared a federally protected wetland.
In my case, a road ditch near my property was declared a wetland that had to be mitigated just before the road was widened, which made no sense by any defined standards. Eventually, after a great deal of protest and upheaval, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers admitted they mis-measured the wet areas in the ditch, and the 22-acre mitigation project stopped.
LOL. All…government overreach is BS. Rinos controlled congress…Then…marxists. We shall see how this idiot McCarthy performs. So far, not any different. Just saying. Hey…if you want to correct people. Maybe… be more specific about parties. I`m no contributor to the republican party in general. I quit that a decade ago…you, really don`t know a thing about me. You just want to jump on a true conservative like me. Do your homework on me.
My, advise to everyone who will listen. Flush DC. It, is corrupt to its core.
On a side note…point to one frickin democrat in office that isn`t stone nuts. I, challenge you smart-mouthed Guy Fawkes…who is too much of a coward to use its own name. Grow a pair… or, go away.
Chuck, I’m sorry my response to you’re completely non sequitur and banal original post was a trigger for you. In the future, I’ll try to work in trigger warnings for the easily offended. And while I don’t know you, I do read your posts, I happen to agree with a fair few, particularly the flush DC comment. But the hard truth is that several are nothing more than recycled, thoughtless criticisms of team blue, for no apparent reason other than you don’t agree with their worldview, but none (that I’ve seen) have been critical of team red, at least until now. So, much like men calling themselves women, you can sure call yourself whatever you want, that doesn’t make it true though. In the future I’ll try to remember you’re simply a conservative independent with a disdain for liberals. I won’t be going anywhere, though, it’s far to much fun here. You inject a little truth and chaos into the conversation and suddenly everybody loses their minds.
That said, I’ll take your challenge, Democrats that aren’t stone nuts would be Manchin, Tester, King and Baldwin, that come immediately to mind, and that’s just the senate. You paint approximately 150 million other Americans with a broad brush based on the 10% of a political cult’s fringe members, but my online pseudonym is the problem here? Ok. If you’re going to call me to the mat, you’d better have more than insults and half facts or you’re going to have a real bad time.
And George, the federal government has been weaponizing conservation since they realized they could. Wetlands have been a point of contention for a very long time (at least 1972 with the clean water act), and don’t even get me going on the Army Corp of Engineers, government waste at it’s peak.
The Waters of the United States was much broader than just wetlands, and was being utilized to weaponize conservation by vastly expanding what the EPA (not just the Corp) could control, and by the time the rule was changed even the EPA admitted basically every ditch in America was under their control and they were letting that control leech into surrounding dry lands through some very tenuous interpretations of their own regulations. But, it was never about pollution in country ditches, it was always about a bureaucracy vastly expanding it’s own power and scope without explicit authority from congress to do so.
Last June the US Supreme Court put out the opinion in West Virginia, et al., v. EPA which took the EPA to task for the way they interpreted the Clean Air Act because they way they did so vastly expanded their own power. The recent decision of Sackett v. EPA took them to task for the same thing, this time applied to water instead of air. Much like abortion for the liberals, this is a point of law that is important to conservatives, which is mostly created by the courts, and could have been dealt with by a conservative legislature at several points since the 70’s, but they categorically failed to do so.
I am deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Joe Manchin…devout catholic.
Hey Guido…why don’t you use your real name? Are you afraid of the dark too?
Now chuck, there’s no need for ethnic slurs, I’m not even Italian. Seriously though, you’re super triggered by getting called out on your obvious biases. You should reflect on that and get back to me with a comment that brings more to the table than sad insults.
Guy Fawkes was born in Yorkshire in 1570. A convert to the Catholic faith, Fawkes had been a soldier who had spent several years fighting in Italy. It was during this period that he adopted the name Guido (Italian for Guy) Guess you aren`t so well read after all.