"The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers’ final water rule under the Clean Water Act seeks to regulate almost every type of water in the country.
And you don’t even need to get into the substance of the rule to know it’ll be a disaster.
Here are three signs that this rule should be killed off immediately.
- Sign 1: The Regulating Agency Is Acting More Like an Advocacy Group Than a Federal Agency.
The EPA engaged in controversial activities to help get support for the water rule.
It launched a video and social media PR campaign asking:
“Do you choose clean water?”
As if critics of the rule want dirty water.
And that was just one gambit.
According to the New York Times, “[l]ate last year, the EPA sponsored a drive on Facebook and Twitter to promote its proposed clean water rule in conjunction with the Sierra Club...”
...The water rule is a disaster.
There’s no maybe about it.
Even environmental groups are suing the agencies (albeit for not going far enough).
This rule isn’t about protecting water; it’s about protecting these federal agencies’ ability to regulate more water at the expense of property rights.
Congress needs to do what it can to stop getting pushed around by these agencies.
Its first job should be simply to kill off this rule immediately."
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