Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches

[Deplorable Yankee]

Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches
Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules.

CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI | 1.24.2020 1:45 PM


(Marty Randall/Dreamstime.com)
Another day, another barrage of hysterical reactions to a marginal regulatory reform. The latest cause for concern is the White House's finalized clean water rule that renounces the federal government's ability to regulate ponds, puddles, and (some) ditches.

Yesterday's regulation replaces the prior Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule issued by the Obama administration in 2015. The Obama-era rule was controversial from the get-go, with multiple Red states filing legal challenges claiming it exceeded the federal government's authority to regulate water pollution. A slew of federal court rulings stayed the implementation of the rule in over half the states.

The new rule released yesterday is intended to pare back the federal government's regulatory powers to something closer to what Congress intended when it passed the 1972 Clean Water Act.

"All states have their own protections for waters within their borders, and many regulate more broadly than the federal government," said Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andy Wheeler at a homebuilding conference in Las Vegas today. Wheeler's department, alongside the Army Corp of Engineers, is responsible for writing and implementing the new clean water rule. "Our new rule recognizes this relationship and strikes the proper balance between Washington, D.C., and the states."


Most media outlets reporting on the rule change went with a different framing.

Trump destroyer of worlds !

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Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches

 

[deannalw]

Impeach that bastard!!

 

[ReinyDays]

Already dumping my stock of benzene and lead paint ...

 

[JLW]

Trumpers love the smell of benzene in the morning so these Trumper anti-environmental posts do not surprise me in the least.

Trumper paradise:

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Trumpers love the smell of benzene in the morning so these Trumper anti-environmental posts do not surprise me in the least.

Trumper paradise:

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Lol they're so nazi gay and full of shit
Reason does not exactly have the biggest collection of trump supporters derp

Plus with socialisms abysmal record on the environment any one who ever actually gave a a shit about the environment could never honestly be a socialist..... in a million years

 

[cnm]

It's almost as though water won't feed into waterways through those systems when it rains/floods.

 

[JLW]

Trumpers love the smell of benzene in the morning so these Trumper anti-environmental posts do not surprise me in the least.

Trumper paradise:

View attachment 302723

Lol they're so nazi gay and full of shit
Reason does not exactly have the biggest collection of trump supporters derp

Plus with socialisms abysmal record on the environment any one who ever actually gave a a shit about the environment could never honestly be a socialist..... in a million years

Lol..Someone is triggered. Despite your lies, no one is more anti-environmental than you Trumpers. The more toxins industry dumps into your water supply, the more your type loves it no matter who it injures. You know why? Because that is how sheep act.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Trumpers love the smell of benzene in the morning so these Trumper anti-environmental posts do not surprise me in the least.

Trumper paradise:

View attachment 302723

Lol they're so nazi gay and full of shit
Reason does not exactly have the biggest collection of trump supporters derp

Plus with socialisms abysmal record on the environment any one who ever actually gave a a shit about the environment could never honestly be a socialist..... in a million years

Lol..Someone is triggered. Despite your lies, no one is more anti-environmental than you Trumpers. The more toxins industry dumps into your water supply, the more your type loves it no matter who it injures. Because that is how sheep act.

Roflmao

 

[Billy_Bob]

Trumpers love the smell of benzene in the morning so these Trumper anti-environmental posts do not surprise me in the least.

Trumper paradise:

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And yet here you are using that energy to post.... Then you fail to understand that with our current scrubbing technology that 99.996% of what you see in that picture is water vapor... Your nothing more than a disingenuous liar.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It's almost as though water won't feed into waterways through those systems when it rains/floods.

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

 

[cnm]

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

It should certainly have control over any water entering a waterway or a water table from your land, I agree entirely. But feel free to shit in your neighbours' water, that's the American way after all.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

It should certainly have control over any water entering a waterway or a water table from your land, I agree entirely. But feel free to shit in your neighbours' water, that's the American way after all.

It should certainly have control over any water entering a waterway or a water table from your land, I agree entirely.

And if it's a puddle that is never connected to a waterway, the government should still have total control, because it's water.

But feel free to shit in your neighbours' water

Good point, the government should have total control over my land to prevent any shit on it.
Because the shit could get wet and enter a waterway.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

It's almost as though water won't feed into waterways through those systems when it rains/floods.

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

People were losing thier land and homes over some of this cr

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

It should certainly have control over any water entering a waterway or a water table from your land, I agree entirely. But feel free to shit in your neighbours' water, that's the American way after all.

State and local not good enough for ya huh ..

I posted a story here locals were caught between local and state doing one thing and the feds fining the shit out of them over NOTHING

They lost thier house and thier land

No ones against clean water and having reasonable rules and regulations ....please stop being a hysterical moron

 

[cnm]

And if it's a puddle that is never connected to a waterway, the government should still have total control, because it's water.

It is very likely to end up in a water table.

 

[cnm]

Good point, the government should have total control over my land to prevent any shit on it.

I love how control of shit entering waterways becomes total control in paranoid daydreams.

 

[cnm]

No ones against clean water and having reasonable rules and regulations

Trump is. He allows mining concerns to contaminate waterways with heavy metals from their tailings by revoking Obama regulations. That is exactly being against clean water. Not that I care, I don't have to drink it. But I don't have to accept complete bullshit from posters on this site, either.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

No ones against clean water and having reasonable rules and regulations

Trump is. He allows mining concerns to contaminate waterways with heavy metals from their tailings by revoking Obama regulations. That is exactly being against clean water. Not that I care, I don't have to drink it. But I don't have to accept complete bullshit from posters on this site, either.

Well huffy po did report potus also personally stops by and adds extra lead for kicks

 

[Crepitus]

Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches
Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules.

CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI | 1.24.2020 1:45 PM


(Marty Randall/Dreamstime.com)
Another day, another barrage of hysterical reactions to a marginal regulatory reform. The latest cause for concern is the White House's finalized clean water rule that renounces the federal government's ability to regulate ponds, puddles, and (some) ditches.

Yesterday's regulation replaces the prior Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule issued by the Obama administration in 2015. The Obama-era rule was controversial from the get-go, with multiple Red states filing legal challenges claiming it exceeded the federal government's authority to regulate water pollution. A slew of federal court rulings stayed the implementation of the rule in over half the states.

The new rule released yesterday is intended to pare back the federal government's regulatory powers to something closer to what Congress intended when it passed the 1972 Clean Water Act.

"All states have their own protections for waters within their borders, and many regulate more broadly than the federal government," said Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andy Wheeler at a homebuilding conference in Las Vegas today. Wheeler's department, alongside the Army Corp of Engineers, is responsible for writing and implementing the new clean water rule. "Our new rule recognizes this relationship and strikes the proper balance between Washington, D.C., and the states."


Most media outlets reporting on the rule change went with a different framing.
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Trump destroyer of worlds !

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Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches

Stupid post. Ephemeral waterways are not puddles and ditches. That ridiculous rule removes protections from something like 80% of waterways in semi-arid areas like the dessert Southwest.

Insanity.

 

[Crepitus]

Impeach that bastard!!

Already done.

 

[Crepitus]

It's almost as though water won't feed into waterways through those systems when it rains/floods.

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

People were losing thier land and homes over some of this cr

Exactly!!

If any water ever flows over your land, the government should have total control over your land.

It should certainly have control over any water entering a waterway or a water table from your land, I agree entirely. But feel free to shit in your neighbours' water, that's the American way after all.

State and local not good enough for ya huh ..

I posted a story here locals were caught between local and state doing one thing and the feds fining the shit out of them over NOTHING

They lost thier house and thier land

No ones against clean water and having reasonable rules and regulations ....please stop being a hysterical moron

tRump and his big corporate buddies are against it.