Idaho House panel introduces bill to nullify EPA

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This seemed to slip under the radar. Can they legislate to pick and choose which federal agencies have agency over Idaho?

Here is a link to the bill - http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2014/H0473.pdf

This was reported in the Idaho Statesman's blog back in February.

[House Bill 473, which was introduced by Republican Rep. Paul Shepherd of Riggins, comes in response to to the agency’s requirement that miners who dredge the bottoms of Idaho rivers and streams where endangered salmon, steelhead and bull trout spawn, must get a permit. A week ago, while I was away, between 60 and 70 miners filled the Capitol auditorium at a hearing organized by the chairmen of the House and Senate resources committees.....His bill says EPA doesn’t have authority to do anything because it is not in the U.S. Constitution and violates “the true meaning and intent as given by the founders and ratifiers,” and is declared to be “invalid in the state of Idaho.”

Read more here: http://blogs.idahostatesman.com/house-panel-introduces-bill-to-nullify-epa/#storylink=cpy]

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2. Could it get any worse?

The guns on campus, the continued exclusion of LGBT as a protected minority, the Agricultural gag bill for exposing animal cruelty at industry farms, and they want to pass one prohibiting law enforcement from taking guns by Federal action. All ALEC inspired I imagine.