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EPA power grab

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EPA power grab unleashes bipartisan backlash

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Human Events
by: Audrey Hudson
Monday, June 11, 2012



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An unprecedented private-property power grab by the the EPA has prompted 64 Republican and Democratic politicians, including Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., to co-sponsor legislation to stop it. Photo Credit:AP

Lawmakers are working to block an unprecedented power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act and control land alongside ditches, gullies and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways. ...

“Never in the history of the CWA has federal regulation defined ditches and other upland features as ‘waters of the United States,’ ” said Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), the ranking committee member, and Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio), chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, [in a letter to House colleagues]. ...

[A] House measure carries 64 Republican and Democratic cosponsors and was passed in committee last week. A companion piece of legislation is already gathering steam in the Senate and is cosponsored by 26 Republicans.

 
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