EPA: Expanding our authority under the Clean Water Act is going to make everybody’s lives easier, we swear « Hot Air

EPA: Expanding our authority under the Clean Water Act is going to make everybody’s lives easier, we swear « Hot Air: "The Environmental Protection Agency has for awhile now been working on regulations to further — ahem — “clarify” the reach of their jurisdiction over the United States’ various bodies of water. A leaked draft report of the EPA’s proposal for granting more authority unto themselves had farmers, ranchers, and the energy and commerce industries up in arms over the possibilities for infringing on private property rights to micromanage even small and temporary bodies of water, and the draft’s official release this afternoon isn’t doing anything to dispel any of those business groups’ fears."



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