WOTUS: Court blocks EPA water rule
At the eleventh hour a federal court ordered an injunction blocking EPA's water rule. EPA was defiant. EPA bureaucrats declared that they will only halt the rule in the 13 states that requested the injunction.
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WOTUS: Whom do you trust with your water after EPA’s toxic spill?
EPA was created in 1970 largely in response to the Cuyahoga River in Ohio catching on fire. Forty-five years later, things have come full circle. Now, it is EPA that is polluting a vast river system in the Southwest. Should EPA be allowed to take over the rest of the "waters of the United States?"
WOTUS comes to Louisiana, and it’s coming soon to you
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flexed muscles it may not yet have the right to use in declaring a Louisiana property to be a wetland. Worse, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Corps' latest victim their day in court. But the Pacific Legal Foundation has petitioned the Supreme Court. claiming abuse of the Clean Water Act. Even if the PLF beats the Corps in court, the victory will be pyrrhic if the EPA is allowed to promulgate its Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, which is due to take effect at the end of 2015 if not withdrawn or dramatically restructured.
WOTUS: The facts about EPA’s wet fiction
Landowners, homeowners, business owners, home builders, construction companies, the forestry and mining industries, and just about everyone else engaged in productive activities in the United States are in the crosshairs of the most far-reaching power grab the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ever undertaken.
WOTUS — All ten of EPA’s regional wetland maps
Per multiple requests -- All ten of EPA's regional wetlands maps.
WOTUS — Is America all wet to EPA?
EPA's wetlands maps show water everywhere, yet they assure us their new WOTUS rule doesn't mean they'll regulate all of it . Do you trust them?
EPA in hot WOTUS as people say, “ditch this rule!”
Should the feds seize control over every wet ditch and puddle in the U.S.? Big Green foundations have been lusting after WOTUS power since the late 1990s. People are speaking up and sharing their stories. EPA is sweating. EPA should sweat.
CFACT to Feds: Define “water” sensibly
Under Obama, the Federal Government tried to assert control over just about every pond, stream and damp puddle in America as part of the navigable (laughable) waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The Supreme Court brushed them back. Time to clarify. Read CFACT's official submission.
Preserving the ‘farm’ in farm bill
Farmers and ranchers comprise just 2% of the population, yet feed 98% of the nation.
Courts slap down climate policies – again
Executive climate actions with no legal basis cannot stand.