House passes bill weakening EPA Clean Water Act powers.

[enough]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/water-regulation-as-federalism_bill_passes_house_l.php?ref=fpblg

Water-Regulation-As-Federalism Bill Passes House, Looks A Lot Like ALEC

After being fast tracked by a House panel and passing the House last week, a bill that would strip fundamental powers of the EPA to regulate water toxins crept closer to a Senate vote.

It bears a striking resemblance to several pieces of "model legislation" recently leaked from The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and might be the newest testament to the organization's potency.

The mission of the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018) is self-evident in its title. It would eliminate, wholesale, the EPA's power to supersede individual states' water pollution rules. States would no longer be held to federal water quality standards they disagree with, and the EPA would be unable to make changes to Clean Water Act quality standards without states' approval.

It would prohibit the federal government from "specification of any defined area as a disposal site for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters," so if the state does not believe the dumped material would harm drinking water or fisheries, then chemical dumping and manufacturing runoff would not be prevented.


MORE>

[Drale]

1. I sent a email to my rep Judy Biggert and

she sent me a letter back saying that she will vote for that bill because it restores the balance of regulatory power between the federal government and the states. She is so full of shit, I don't know anyone who has ever voted for her, I don't know how she keeps getting elected. I'm now trying to figure out when she is going to be back "home" so I can go down to her office and tell her to her face that she is full of shit and in my eyes a domestic terrorist.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I don't think it will pass in the Senate.

Or Obama would veto it.

Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. He wasn't a liberal.