Congressional Republicans Dirtying the Waters

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Environmental News Service

Congressional Republicans Dirtying the Waters

By Sharon Guynup

WASHINGTON, DC, June 10, 2011 (ENS) - Republicans in Congress are aggressively attacking the Clean Water Act - a landmark 1970 law created the year after Ohio's horrifically polluted Cuyahoga River spontaneously burst into flame.

These attacks - coupled with assaults on other federal laws protecting water resources - are being championed by Ohio freshman Republican Bob Gibbs, a hog farmer-turned-Congressman who heads a key water subcommittee.

Gibbs chairs the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, a subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

In March, Gibbs and the GOP-led House fast-tracked legislation allowing pesticide spraying over waterways without Clean Water Act permits - despite strong evidence of growing pesticide concentrations in U.S. waters.



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[DJ13]

1. .....

[Avant Guardian]

2. What is wrong with these people?

Republicans shit where their kids and grandkids eat and sleep.

[alfredo]

6. Blinded by greed.

[justgamma]

3. They claim to love the United States, but

I can see no sign of it. Just give me a clue to what it is they love. It's not the land and not the people. So what the heck is it?

[benld74]

4. Pure unadulterated BS!

DOing all that they can without doing anything they need to do!

[alfredo]

5. Hog farms produce huge amounts of odoriferous waste.

You can smell them well before you see them. The smell is the least noxious part of a hog farm. That's why he's fighting the clean water act.

[unblock]

7. burn ooooooon, big river, burn on.

Bwa bwa Bwa BWA Bwa bwa

[QuintanarooBoy]

8. The CWA was signed into law

by that radical pinko named Richard Nixon.

[No Elephants]

9. A Democratic Congress enacted it and probably could have overridden his veto.

Besides, in those days, vetoing a clean air or clean water bill would have been very unpopular.

Re-writing of history as to Eisenhower, Nixon and Goldwater seems to have become popular in the last few years. I will fight draping them in fuzzy nostalgia every time I see it.