Blunt expressed a belief that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the United States, a rule designating jurisdiction of bodies of water, would give the agency say over the majority of building permits filed throughout the country. The EPA in 2015 revised the definition of what qualifies as a U.S. waterway, a move Trump instructed […]
According to the administration’s latest report, 635 regulations previously listed have been withdrawn; 700 rule-makings have been shelved; and 244 regulatory actions delayed. Among them: Re-evaluation of the Waters of the United States rule, which grossly expanded federal jurisdiction over state-regulated waterways. Continue reading at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review…
Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced it would review the Waters of the U.S. rule that the previous administration put out in 2015. Farm Bureau waged an all-out campaign to ditch the WOTUS rule because it gave federal regulators too much control over farming and ranching on thousands of acres — far beyond what […]
In 2018, we must keep up the momentum. We have to continue going after onerous rules and regulations. We started by rolling back the EPA’s Waters of the U.S. rule, stopping the Clean Power Plan, and undoing some of the damage done by Dodd-Frank. Continue reading at Macon Telegraph… Photo Credit: Rebecca Hammel, U.S. Senate […]
It should not surprise anyone to know I have been critical of the Environmental Protection Agency in the past. I have fought Obama-era directives like the Clean Power Plan and the re-definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) tooth and nail since day one. Both of these items expanded federal power well beyond what […]
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to complete repeal of the Waters of the U.S. rule in April of 2018. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Vice President Of Government Affairs Colin Woodall says they’re pleased the agency is moving ahead with that. He says it takes time to unravel that burdensome regulation. He says the replacement rule […]
During his tenure as attorney general of Oklahoma, in the six years leading up to his appointment to the Trump cabinet, Pruitt filed 14 lawsuits against the EPA, a record that outraged environmentalists and liberals. In Washington, he has redoubled many of these efforts. He once sued to halt the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). […]
Pruitt also stopped at Bill Couser’s farm near Nevada, Iowa, to address farmers and agricultural leaders about the WOTUS rule. “We need to work with the states on their individual needs. Each state is different and one rule would not be fair to the states,” Pruitt said. “We need to know what is a water […]
A majority of Americans say President Donald Trump’s administration should work with Congress and local businesses to rewrite a former President Barack Obama-era “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, according to polling. Morning Consult pollsters found that not only do most Americans see WOTUS as an example of government overreach, 58 percent agree the […]
Taking the stage at a Galt House where he worked as a bell hop while in college, Kentucky native and US EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wasted no time telling the audience that the Trump administration was about to shed baggage left behind by the Obama Administration’s EPA. “Waters of the US” is likely the biggest […]