The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 to address legitimate concerns regarding pollution and contaminants that were potentially dangerous and needed to be managed.
Since then, however, it has become a rogue federal agency of some 18,000 employees issuing unconstitutional mandates and living off of huge, unreasonable fines against businesses and individuals that it targets, and that do not have the means to fight the out-of-control behemoth. The EPA levied a fine against the Wal-Mart Corporation of $110 million for the improper disposal of pesticide products returned to their stores, and the list goes on.
Another story in the news deals with a 77-year old Montana resident who simply wanted to provide watering holes on his property for his horses and to protect his property from fire. The EPA instead has decided to make an example of the senior citizen and to completely destroy his life.
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This is from an EPA that wants to declare private property, a designated wetland if there’s an chance a puddle can migrate to a navigable waterway.
the country has no laws for the people
Sickening!
This is terrible, he should be able to build a pond on his own land!
This is exactly the reason why many government agencies need to be disempowered, as the previous administration used them as a form of “gestapo”. If anything, the EPA should be encouraging people to build ponds, as our cities (urban/suburbs) encroach upon our wetlands. Amazingly enough, the EPA overlooks many such projects where big money and tax revenue is involved…
This is a disgrace
Sick! The government has been too big and out of control for too long.
EPA and their power time for them to learn they are not god
If the water is on your property, it is part of the property and should belong to you.!
B******t