@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
enough of the Californians eviscerating each other. Tell me George, what do you feel about Trumps EO's to permit mine discharge water to be allowed stream entry without treatment??
Think they'll hold up to judicial review on environmental qnd Constitutional bases.
You going to keep silent about that?
I presume you are writing about his action to limit the EPA's absurd interpretation of 'the waters of the United states' to include small creeks and puddles on private land. It appears you are being a bit selective in your description. If such pollution makes it to a river, the source can still be identified and corrected, and as you likely know. most abandoned mines are already under EPA regulation ( certainly all with significant acid drainage). . If the EPA had not so mindlessly enfored its unbounded interpretation of the law this wouldn't have happened.
Indeed the worst breech of any mine surface water containment in recent years was done a few months ago in Colorado by the EPA itself. If there is a larger concentration of lazy, inept authoritarian bureaucrats in the world than our EPA, I will be very surprised.
Our laws are written by our elected representatives in this democracy, and not by bureaucrats. If there is a need, the Congress can amend the law.
The endangered Species Act is also mindlessly used to bully owners of property. It and some provisions of NEPA which require as much or more time, and sometimes cost for permitting new facilities and infrastructure as designing and building it, will also likely see some changes.
