New Interior Secretary Rescinds Last-Minute Obama Environmental Order

[longknife]

Another campaign promise kept.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said Zinke's order "represents an important check on executive abuse and reverses what was a deliberate attack on Americans' fundamental rights and privileges" by the Obama administration.

The order reverses a decision by the Obama administration to phase out use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on wildlife refuges by 2022.

Full story @ Trump's Navy SEAL Wastes No Time, Takes Ax To Obama's Legacy On Day ONE and New Interior Secretary Zinke reverses last-minute Obama lead-ammunition ban

 

[longknife]

Intention To Review and Rescind or Revise the Clean Water Rule

Let us bypass all the PC crap from the media and get right down to the grist of things. One of the things I get from a daily scan of the Federal Register is a one up of government actions straight from the so-called horse's mouth. So, if you want the TRUTH and not some filtered version, this is the actual notice with all the information.

The summary is: In accordance with a Presidential directive, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) announces its intention to review and rescind or revise the Clean Water Rule.

The full document can be read @ Federal Register :: Intention To Review and Rescind or Revise the Clean Water Rule (a fully safe government website!)

 

[mamooth]

That allows Trump's golf courses to make more money.

Hence, it's a violation of the law.

And if Obama had done such a thing, you'd be demanding prosecution.

 

[Old Rocks]

Why of course, the GOP just signed off on more pollution. Isn't that just the most wonderful thing to hand to our children and grand children?

 

[boedicca]

Excellent news!

 

[Crick]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

 

[longknife]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

 

[BlackFlag]

Lol riding in on a horse like a circus act, making sure there is lead in every national park.

 

[longknife]

Lol riding in on a horse like a circus act, making sure there is lead in every national park.

He's one hell of a lot more dedicated environmentalist than you will ever be.

 

[BlackFlag]

Lol riding in on a horse like a circus act, making sure there is lead in every national park.

He's one hell of a lot more dedicated environmentalist than you will ever be.

Nope. I wouldn't use my power help people damage the environment. If all I do is absolutely nothing, I am still a better environmentalist than Ryan Zinke.

Check out Representative Ryan Zinke's Environmental Voting Record

 

[Old Rocks]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

Well for sure many farmers in the coal country will have these kinds of ponds on their land.

 

[Old Rocks]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

The rain barrel law here in Oregon was passed. And it was not federal law but a law common to the western states, water rights, that was the problem. And the state legislature exempted rain barrels from the roof, from that law. If you are in a western state, you had best check water rights before you impound any running water. That is the law, like it or not.

 

[Crick]

The Clean Water Rule is a final publication created by the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Army Corps of Engineers regarding water resource management in the United States. The legislation re-defines the rules and regulations of US waterways originally protected under the Clean Water Act of 1972.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy along with Assistant Army Secretary Jo-Ellen Darcy signed the final rule on May 27, 2015. Careful consideration was taken into account after a large stream of public comments were received on the proposed rule. This rule will ensure protection of public health through protection of national waterways listed under The Clean Water Act of 1972. These waterways serve as aquatic resources that provide roughly 117 million Americans with drinking water. The Clean Water Rule will become effective 60 days after the Federal Register publication is released (May 27, 2015).

Explanation
The establishment of this rule was put forth by the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect streams and wetlands that belong to the nation's water resources. Since the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006, protection of the nation’s waterways has been unclear. The Clean Water Rule would ensure the rules of The Clean Water Act more precisely defined.

• Provides a clear definition of regulatory safeguards, in relation to nearby waters.

The rule extend safeguard protection to neighboring rivers and lakes and their tributaries, because of the scientifically-proven ecological connection to the health of downstream rivers.

• Protects US regional water treasures

Specific watersheds have been scientifically proven to impact downstream water health. The rule protects Texas coastal prairie wetlands, Carolina and Assawoman bays, western vernal pools in California, pocosins, and other prairie potholes, when impacting downstream waterways.

• Focuses on streams, instead of ditches and drainages.

The clean water rule limits safeguards to ditches that are man made out of streams or function like streams and can carry pollution further downstream, making streams that flow only at times of precipitation are not covered.

• Reduces the use of analyzing waters on a case-by-case basis.

Before the rule, almost any water could be put through an analysis that remained case-specific, even if it would not be covered under the Clean Water Act. The rule limits use of case-specific analysis by providing certainty and clarity of protected vs non-protected water.

• Maintains statuses of waters within Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems.

The Clean Water Rule does not affect how these waters are treated, and still encourages green infrastructural practices.[1]

I don't see anything here referencing catch basins? Do you have some references?

 

[keepitreal]

Why of course, the GOP just signed off on more pollution. Isn't that just the most wonderful thing to hand to our children and grand children?

Hmm, I think they'd rather have an itemized bill
detailing what the $20 trillion Obama took from them was spent on

 

[Crick]

What $20 trillion do you believe Obama took from the GOP?

Here is a table of the deficit increases created under each presidency as a percent of the deficits they inherited from their predecessors:
Which President Added Most to the U.S. Debt?

FY 1789 - FY 1913: $2.9 billion debt created.
Woodrow Wilson: Added $21 billion to the debt, a 727 percent increase from the $2.9 billion debt at the end of Taft's last budget, FY 1913
Warren G. Harding: Subtracted $2 billion from the debt, a 7 percent decrease from the $24 billion debt at the end of Wilson's last budget, FY 1921.
Calvin Coolidge: Subtracted $5 billion from the debt, a 26 percent decrease from the $21 billion debt at the end of Harding's last budget, FY 1923.
Herbert Hoover: Added $6 billion, a 33 percent increase from the $17 billion debt at the end of Coolidge's last budget, FY 1929.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Added $236 billion, a 1,048 percent increase from the $23 billion debt at the end of Hoover's last budget, FY 1933
Harry Truman: Added $7 billion, a 3 percent increase from the $259 billion debt at the end of FDR’s last budget, FY 1945
Dwight Eisenhower: Added $23 billion, a 9 percent increase from the $266 billion debt at the end of Truman's last budget, FY 1953
John F. Kennedy: Added $23 billion, an 8 percent increase from the $289 billion debt at the end of Eisenhower's last budget, FY 1961
Lyndon B. Johnson: Added $42 billion, a 13 percent increase from the $312 billion debt at the end of JFK's last budget, FY 1964
Richard Nixon: Added $121 billion, a 34 percent increase from the $354 billion debt at the end of LBJ's last budget, FY 1969
Gerald Ford: Added $224 billion, a 47 percent increase from the $475 billion debt at the end of Nixon's last budget, FY 1974
Jimmy Carter: Added $299 billion, a 43 percent increase from the $699 billion debt at the end of Ford's last budget, FY 1977
Ronald Reagan: Added $1.86 trillion, a 186 percent increase from the $998 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget, FY 1981
George H.W. Bush: Added $1.554 trillion, a 54 percent increase from the $2.8 trillion debt at the end of Reagan's last budget, FY 1989
Bill Clinton: Added $1.396 trillion, a 32 percent increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of George H.W. Bush's last budget, FY 1993
George W. Bush: Added $5.849 trillion, a 101 percent increase from the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget, FY 2001
Barack Obama: Added $7.917 trillion, a 68 percent increase from the $11.657 trillion debt at the end of George W. Bush’s last budget, FY 2009

Can YOU explain what benefit American men, women and children will garner from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

 

[Billy_Bob]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

Well for sure many farmers in the coal country will have these kinds of ponds on their land.

lol

more crap...

The farmers here in coal country see the watershed from the mines cleaned and released...

 

[Crick]

Do you see any other benefits? I mean, I don't think a large percentage of the US population is gnashing at the bit to set up drainage ponds but cannot due to the Clean Water Rule. But quite a few could be affected by contamination of their drinking water. And the Rule makes it easier for businesses to understand what bodies of water are affected by the Clean Water Act - less costly mistakes, easier planning, the sort of stability that businesses like. The Rule does NOT "protect any new types of waters, regulate most ditches, apply to groundwater, create any new permitting requirements for agriculture, or address land use or private property rights". So, how is repealing the rule going to do what you claim? That would seem to require the repeal of the Clean Water Act. Would you like to see the Clean Water Act repealed?

 

[Old Rocks]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

Well for sure many farmers in the coal country will have these kinds of ponds on their land.

lol

more crap...

The farmers here in coal country see the watershed from the mines cleaned and released...

You continue to pull stinky 'facts' out of your ass, Silly Billy;

Plundering Appalachia - The Tragedy of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining :: The Issue

Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia are estimated to produce just 5 to 10 percent of total U.S. coal production, and generate less than 4 percent of our electricity—an amount that could be eliminated from the energy supply with small gains in energy efficiency and conservation. This highly destructive form of surface mining is disfiguring an entire region, the coalfield areas of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, because of one reason: profit.

More than 470 mountains in the southern Appalachians, which are among the oldest mountains on Earth, have already been sheared off. Vast areas of wildlife habitat, the most biologically diverse forest in North America, have been obliterated. Roughly 2000 miles of streams have been filled or severly degraded by mining waste, all in pursuit of coal. And coal is a lousy way to power a society.

From mining to burning to disposing the combustion waste, it’s a dirty business. Unfortunately, in our reductionist age, too often people looking at the coal problem don’t consider the whole problem. Only by contemplating the entire life cycle of fossil energy—coal extraction, preparation, transportation, combustion, and waste disposal of by-products—can one fully understand the enormity of coal’s toxic legacy.

See how coal’s toxic legacy stretches from blown-up mountains to a dangerously warming planet to coal ash dumps polluting air and water:

 

[ScienceRocks]

What $20 trillion do you believe Obama took from the GOP?

Here is a table of the deficit increases created under each presidency as a percent of the deficits they inherited from their predecessors:
Which President Added Most to the U.S. Debt?

FY 1789 - FY 1913: $2.9 billion debt created.
Woodrow Wilson: Added $21 billion to the debt, a 727 percent increase from the $2.9 billion debt at the end of Taft's last budget, FY 1913
Warren G. Harding: Subtracted $2 billion from the debt, a 7 percent decrease from the $24 billion debt at the end of Wilson's last budget, FY 1921.
Calvin Coolidge: Subtracted $5 billion from the debt, a 26 percent decrease from the $21 billion debt at the end of Harding's last budget, FY 1923.
Herbert Hoover: Added $6 billion, a 33 percent increase from the $17 billion debt at the end of Coolidge's last budget, FY 1929.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Added $236 billion, a 1,048 percent increase from the $23 billion debt at the end of Hoover's last budget, FY 1933
Harry Truman: Added $7 billion, a 3 percent increase from the $259 billion debt at the end of FDR’s last budget, FY 1945
Dwight Eisenhower: Added $23 billion, a 9 percent increase from the $266 billion debt at the end of Truman's last budget, FY 1953
John F. Kennedy: Added $23 billion, an 8 percent increase from the $289 billion debt at the end of Eisenhower's last budget, FY 1961
Lyndon B. Johnson: Added $42 billion, a 13 percent increase from the $312 billion debt at the end of JFK's last budget, FY 1964
Richard Nixon: Added $121 billion, a 34 percent increase from the $354 billion debt at the end of LBJ's last budget, FY 1969
Gerald Ford: Added $224 billion, a 47 percent increase from the $475 billion debt at the end of Nixon's last budget, FY 1974
Jimmy Carter: Added $299 billion, a 43 percent increase from the $699 billion debt at the end of Ford's last budget, FY 1977
Ronald Reagan: Added $1.86 trillion, a 186 percent increase from the $998 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget, FY 1981
George H.W. Bush: Added $1.554 trillion, a 54 percent increase from the $2.8 trillion debt at the end of Reagan's last budget, FY 1989
Bill Clinton: Added $1.396 trillion, a 32 percent increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of George H.W. Bush's last budget, FY 1993
George W. Bush: Added $5.849 trillion, a 101 percent increase from the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget, FY 2001
Barack Obama: Added $7.917 trillion, a 68 percent increase from the $11.657 trillion debt at the end of George W. Bush’s last budget, FY 2009

Can YOU explain what benefit American men, women and children will garner from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

More people will die and that will make the republicans happy!

 

[Billy_Bob]

How do we and our children and grandchildren BENEFIT from the rescindment of the Clean Water Rule?

I means people can collect run off rain water for personal use without being fined tens of thousands of dollars. I means farmers can have ponds on their land without some bureaucrat taking them to court.

Well for sure many farmers in the coal country will have these kinds of ponds on their land.

lol

more crap...

The farmers here in coal country see the watershed from the mines cleaned and released...

You continue to pull stinky 'facts' out of your ass, Silly Billy;

Plundering Appalachia - The Tragedy of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining :: The Issue

Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia are estimated to produce just 5 to 10 percent of total U.S. coal production, and generate less than 4 percent of our electricity—an amount that could be eliminated from the energy supply with small gains in energy efficiency and conservation. This highly destructive form of surface mining is disfiguring an entire region, the coalfield areas of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, because of one reason: profit.

More than 470 mountains in the southern Appalachians, which are among the oldest mountains on Earth, have already been sheared off. Vast areas of wildlife habitat, the most biologically diverse forest in North America, have been obliterated. Roughly 2000 miles of streams have been filled or severly degraded by mining waste, all in pursuit of coal. And coal is a lousy way to power a society.

From mining to burning to disposing the combustion waste, it’s a dirty business. Unfortunately, in our reductionist age, too often people looking at the coal problem don’t consider the whole problem. Only by contemplating the entire life cycle of fossil energy—coal extraction, preparation, transportation, combustion, and waste disposal of by-products—can one fully understand the enormity of coal’s toxic legacy.

See how coal’s toxic legacy stretches from blown-up mountains to a dangerously warming planet to coal ash dumps polluting air and water:

Always with you it is focusing on the FEW bad actors. Then rather than helping them clean up their act (as the EPA should be doing) you want to cut off their heads and kill the whole industry. Talk about over kill..

We cant fix your kind of stupid. Go ahead and shoot yourself in both feet..