......Last week, a federal judge ruled in favor of Georgia and nine other states, finding that Obama’s “Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule” is unlawful. She sent it back to the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers for reconsideration.
WOTUS was a typical Obama order, a rule that did an unlawful end-run around Congress and that sounded good (who doesn’t want to protect US waters?) but was actually an unconstitutional overreach of federal power at the expense of the states and individuals. It expanded the EPA’s jurisdiction over land and waters traditionally under the states’ authority. And I mean just about every drop of water in America.
The “Define WOTUS Act,” a proposed bill by Republican Senators Mike Braun and Joni Ernst, says that the Obama rule “threatened Iowa’s farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses by giving the federal government authority to regulate water on 97 percent of land in our state.” A typical example of the results was a Wyoming farmer who was being fined $37,500 a day by the EPA for building a water tank for his livestock on his own land.
Obama's WOTUS rule, judged unlawful
WOTUS was a typical Obama order, a rule that did an unlawful end-run around Congress and that sounded good (who doesn’t want to protect US waters?) but was actually an unconstitutional overreach of federal power at the expense of the states and individuals. It expanded the EPA’s jurisdiction over land and waters traditionally under the states’ authority. And I mean just about every drop of water in America.
The “Define WOTUS Act,” a proposed bill by Republican Senators Mike Braun and Joni Ernst, says that the Obama rule “threatened Iowa’s farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses by giving the federal government authority to regulate water on 97 percent of land in our state.” A typical example of the results was a Wyoming farmer who was being fined $37,500 a day by the EPA for building a water tank for his livestock on his own land.
Obama's WOTUS rule, judged unlawful
