Courthouse News
The Trump administration Thursday formally rolled back a major Obama-era policy that brought under federal protection many streams and wetlands across the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler made the announcement Thursday afternoon, formally revoking the so-called Waters of the United States regulation, which defined what bodies of water the federal government may regulate.
Wheeler said revoking the regulation will give greater clarity to businesses, farmers and others who were impacted by the regulations the Obama EPA put in place in 2015. More
Does this mean I can have a Koi pond now and not be shot down by the Coast Guard?
Under Barky’s rules, whenever a cow took a piss,
the puddle was declared navigable waters.
The author(s) are much too kind. The power/land grab
“…that brought under federal protection many streams and wetlands across the U.S was a monster.
It made intermittent streams and places that a half dozen
guys peed in during a beer drinking party into wetlands
subject to obnoxiously burdensome rules and regulations
designed for deep, navigable waters.
Good! Now do his citizenship.
grayjohn:
In the early ’70’s we dug a pond for koi in my parent’s back yard. All was fine until the 1989 “World Series” earthquake which caused the pond to crack. Since none of their sons were home anymore, my parents called a professional to fix it. He asked “Do you have a permit for an underground pond?”
Since the answer was “no,” they just filled it in.
Obama can still have my urine stream!
This is such good news. I have been waiting for this since President Trump announced rolling back a lot of Obama’s restrictive regulations in the EPA.
Maybe now, farmers and landowners can go back to having a say in what happens to their land. Mud puddles will no longer be regulated by the EPA and I can finally have a bird bath without worrying about getting fined if it goes dry for a day!
I’m hoping the replacement regulation will be simple and will keep in mind that we should have freedom to our own land.
Whew! I am glad to hear my sweat droplets will no longer be under liberal control.
Droplets that I am sure they have never experienced.
That’s all well and good but we still have to follow rules of the Sodbuster Swampbuster regulatIons that the Natural Resource Conservation Service mandates. Can’t take trees out without permission, have to file an AD-1026. If soil is highly erodible you can’t till the land. Gosh there’s a lot of rules too lengthy to list.
Does this include the river of tears the Dems will unleash next year?