Is the EPA stepping too far (Expanding the Clean Water Act)?

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EPA water rule is blow to Americans’ private property rights .... President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency currently stands poised to strike the greatest blow to private property rights the modern era has seen, through a proposed rule that radically expands EPA jurisdiction by placing virtually all land and water under the heavy regulatory hand of the federal government. For years, the EPA’s regulatory jurisdiction has been limited to the “navigable waters” of the United States, a term that has always been understood to include only large bodies of water capable of serving as pathways for interstate commerce. Regulation of all other waters was, rightly, left to the states. Unhappy with the limited scope of the jurisdiction given to it by Congress, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers have simply redefined the meaning of “navigable waters” in an extraordinary way, to include virtually every body of water in the nation right down to the smallest of streams, farm ponds and ditches. ...

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Yesterday (5/27/15), EPA announced an astonishing extension of its authority without congressional approval, doubling the federal jurisdiction of “waterways” from the 3.5 million miles legislated by Congress to over 8 million miles. This expansion puts manufacturers, homebuilders, farmers and millions of others at risk for lengthy environmental reviews, permitting delays, and potential lawsuits, while delaying economic activity and development.

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