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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/08/2022 09:18 AM
Updated by: thepinetree on 02/08/2022 09:20 AM
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Attorney General Bonta Urges EPA to Expand Clean Water Act Restrictions on Nation's Waterways
Sacramento, CA...California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leading a multistate coalition along with New York Attorney General Letitia James, urged the Biden Administration to repeal a Trump-era rule drastically curtailing protections under the Clean Water Act. Under the 2020 rule, more than half of all wetlands and at least 18% of all streams across the United States were left without federal protections. Western states like California were even harder hit, with 35% of all streams deprived of federal protections as a result of the 2020 rule. In the comments, the coalition supports the Biden Administration's proposed regulation to restore the 1980s definition of "waters of the United States" and urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to take swift action to develop a more expansive definition that is consistent with science and the law, addresses the impacts of climate change, and serves environmental justice communities.
“After a bone-dry January, California appears unlikely to escape yet another devastating drought,” said Attorney General Bonta. “These conditions are only going to worsen as the impacts of climate change grow increasingly severe. For the West, that means more and more waterways that do not flow year-round. The EPA and Army Corps' definition of 'waters of the United States' must reflect that reality. I urge the Biden Administration to move swiftly to expand protected waters under the Clean Water Act and to take into account environmental justice and climate change impacts in doing so.”
“Although the California Water Boards have broad authority to protect waters under state law, the definition of waters of the United States is essential to effective implementation of California’s water quality program,” said E. Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board. “Our state experienced significant and costly disruptions to our regulatory programs because of the 2020 rule and restoring the earlier definition of WOTUS will ensure that these programs have the stability they need to help the state confront drought and climate change impacts.”
The definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act is critical to maintaining a strong federal foundation for water pollution controls that preserve the integrity of our waters. While the Clean Water Act has resulted in dramatic improvements to water quality in the United States, its overriding objective has not yet been achieved. Many of the Nation’s waters remain polluted.
The 2020 rule made the Clean Water Act’s goals further out of reach, threatening entire watersheds, including 4.8 million miles of streams and 16.3 million acres of non-floodplain wetlands. In May 2020, a coalition led by California and New York filed a lawsuit challenging the unlawful rule. In the comments, the coalition supports the Biden Administration's proposal to undo the 2020 rule and urges the Biden Administration to adopt a more protective definition of “waters of the United States” that takes into account environmental justice and climate change and is consistent with science and the law.
All Americans are entitled to clean water for drinking, recreation, and countless other uses that sustain our life and economic activities, but many of the most vulnerable and already overburdened communities continue to lack access to this fundamental resource. In the comments, the coalition specifically addresses the need for the Biden Administration to adopt a new definition of “waters of the United States” that strives to eliminate these inequities. In addition, as water quality and quantity continue to change as a result of more frequent, severe, and unpredictable weather events, the coalition argues that it is essential that the new definition be based on a consideration of the consequences of climate change.
Attorneys General Bonta and James are joined by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois, the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin as well as the California State Water Resources Control Board and the City of New York in filing the letter.
A copy of the letter can be found here.
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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-02-08 09:22:46
By: Anonymous
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These idiots are just evil!! Will they never learn and stop taking private property rights????? These idiots think they "know best" and can manage everyone else's lives when they probably have never even mowed a lawn.
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Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 10:46:22
By: Anonymous
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So when regulation is restricted, businesses will pollute, it's a well proven fact.
Anti regulation efforts are only for business, anti public health.
Government is the only counter to sociopathic greed.
trump destroyed the EPA, his pick rolled back many laws clean water, air, toxic chemicals and more. trump could care less about the public's health, he only cared about allowing business to pollute unregulated.
So if you are anti regulation, you are pro cancer, disease, death, all preventable with responsible regulation of polluters.
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 13:38:57
By: Anonymous
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Bull*bleep*
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 13:42:36
By: Anonymous
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Just because someone is pro private property rights that doesn't make them pro pollution!!!!
I'll take a privately held property vs say a homeless camp on public property Any day.
Which is more green?
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 13:45:10
By: Anonymous
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To really screw things up it usually takes a beauocrat
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 13:48:21
By: Anonymous
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A half stoned Rogan has been more accurate than Fauci on covid
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 15:28:40
By: Anonymous
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Not even Rogan is defending rogan these days. Just you.
Starting to understand how out of touch you are?
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Re: Anti Regulation Pro Cancer
Posted on: 2022-02-08 17:49:21
By: Anonymous
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No you just are starting to feel your side's ability to bully people into submission starting to fade. The LINOs days are numbered. That stands for liberals in name only.
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Here's our Coward In Chief in Action undermining our Homeland Security
Posted on: 2022-02-08 10:49:11
By: Anonymous
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I heard this broadcast this am on my way to work on 102.7 MY MOTHER LODE
From Cal Thomas
THANK GOODNESS FOR THE NEW YORK POST AND FOX NEWS OR AMERICANS WOULD KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THE VIOLATIONS OF LAW AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER.
ANGIE WONG OF THE POST RECENTLY VISITED THE BORDER AT MISSION, TEXAS AND HERE IS WHAT SHE OBSERVED: “ONCE THE MIGRANTS ARE PROCESSED AT THE CONSOLIDATION CENTERS, THEY ARE GIVEN COLOR CODED FOLDERS TO THE CITY OF THEIR DESTINATION.” WONG SAW FOLDERS WITH TICKETS TO HOUSTON, ATLANTA, NEWARK AND JFK. “THE FOLDER ALSO CONTAINS AN AIRLINE TICKET, A BOOKLET THAT LOOKS LIKE A U.S. PASSPORT, CASH, PRE-PAID CREDIT CARDS, TRAVEL ITINERARIES AND AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION PAGE. THE COVER OF THE FOLDER SAYS, “PLEASE HELP ME I DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. WHAT PLANE DO I NEED TO TAKE? THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP” WITH A SMILEY FACE.
EACH MIGRANT ALSO GETS A SET OF CLOTHING, A BLANKET, AND FOOD. SOME GET CELL PHONES. THEIR HANDLERS – NGOS AND CHURCHES – GET THEM PAST IMMIGRATION AND SECURITY BY FLASHING DOCUMENTS WHILE ALL OTHER PASSENGERS MUST SHOW IDENTIFICATIONS.
U.S. TAXPAYERS ARE FOOTING THE BILL AND OUR POLITICAL LEADERS WHO SWORE AN OATH TO UPHOLD THE LAW ARE COMPLICIT IN THE BREAKING OF IT. IT IS A SCANDAL, BUT THE MAJOR MEDIA WON’T TOUCH IT.
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Re: Here's our Coward In Chief in Action undermining our Homeland Security
Posted on: 2022-02-08 11:02:47
By: Anonymous
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Surely you don't believe this. Right?
Passports? Cell Phones? C'mon man. You're smarter than that.
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Re: Here's our Coward In Chief in Action undermining our Homeland Security
Posted on: 2022-02-08 11:03:32
By: Anonymous
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100% BULL SH*T
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No Subject
Posted on: 2022-02-08 14:33:28
By: Anonymous
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Love protecting our environment . Thank god for the Biden administration . Republicans are a disaster for the environment . The moron trump took us out of the climate accord . And attempted to destroy the EPA .
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Posted on: 2022-02-08 14:42:27
By: Anonymous
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I wish I could be a RINO like Mitch and Lindsey. Trump talking is a demented old racist . Embarrassing our country . Just go away. You and your base have damaged America enough .
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Posted on: 2022-02-08 14:59:56
By: Anonymous
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AMEN.
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Posted on: 2022-02-08 15:04:12
By: Anonymous
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And if that proves to be the case, then millions of Trump supporters will be on a collision course with an epic level of cognitive dissonance.
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Posted on: 2022-02-08 15:29:01
By: Anonymous
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"I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this," Trump told Pence in a tense January 5, 2021, meeting, as reported by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book "Peril." Later in that same meeting, Trump told Pence: "You've betrayed us. I made you. You were nothing. Your career is over if you do this."
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Posted on: 2022-02-08 15:29:22
By: Anonymous
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SO. GLAD. HE'S. GONE.
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Posted on: 2022-02-09 14:05:47
By: Anonymous
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He isn't gone, he lives rent free in your ignorant dumbacrats head. Let's go Brandon. FJB!!!!!!!!!!!!
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