AFP Calls For Overturn of EPA Water Rule

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AFP Calls For Overturn of EPA Water Rule

Thanks South Dakota Delegation for Doing Their Part To Repeal This Onerous New Regulation

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Americans for Prosperity South Dakota issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) newly finalized “Waters of the United States rule” which will drastically expand the power granted to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

“The amount of regulatory overreach coming from the EPA is astonishing,” explained Ben Lee, State Director of Americans for Prosperity South Dakota. “The Waters of the U.S rule threatens property rights and drowns land owners in red tape. This new rule will have a serious impact on the South Dakota’s economy– particularly in agriculture. It’s important that our lawmakers support efforts to overturn the rule. We thank Senators Thune and Rounds as well as Congresswom Noem for their efforts to stop this regulation and for standing up for the rights of South Dakotans all across our state.”

The new rules proposed by the EPA will drastically expand the reach of the EPA to regulate water on private property. By redefining the “waters of the U.S.” from its current definition in the Clean Water Act to “navigable waters” the EPA now has the ability to regulate conceivably any area water flows through. This would include dry creek beds, irrigation ditches, and even simply standing water. This new rule would come with significant compliance costs for South Dakota landowners and family farmers and infringe upon their rights.

31 thoughts on “AFP Calls For Overturn of EPA Water Rule”

  1. It doesn’t take a fracking earthquake to realize why the Koch Bros. want to be able to pollute water on private property. Their oil and gas rigs use and abuse millions of gallons of fresh water and leave the polluted remnants in ponds or pump it down into the aquafir with selfish greedy disdain. No way AFP! Any water that you pollute WILL be regulated. No more Dick Cheney “free pass” to foul what belongs to USA.

    1. “fracking earthquake”

      There is no evidence that fracking caused or causes any earthquakes.

      Science matters, not your pot-induced hallucinations.

  2. PS … any politician, pundit, blogger or journalist that is taking money from the Koch Brothers and their political arm, AMERICAN FOR PROSPERITY is on the warpath against the new water protection regulations. Farmers don’t pollute their water but they do sign leases to let the Koch Bros.’ oil and gas rigs do it on their land. To protect the right to pollute water that will eventually find itself in a river or lake and protect the fracking waste water that is pumped into the ground and eventually seeps into our aquafirs is the epitome of selfishness. The Koch’s have billions invested in oil and gas extraction and think nothing of paying off whomever is necessary to shield their polluting activities.

    1. ” Farmers don’t pollute their water”

      Yes they do–an estimated 85% of the pollutants in MN waters are from farm runoff.

      Even the environmentalists call you a fool.

      You can have the last word…

      1. I’ve already said my piece… but you’re right, corporate farms DO pollute.

        1. I’m sorry, I hit the send button before I finished. (There’s marijuana in the drinking water here, now.) But, I’m glad we agree Mr. Neg-a-nonymous. Big-Ag corporate farms do pollute and need to be regulated by the new EPA rules.

        2. In MN, it’s farmers of all sizes.

          Nice try with the hate-corporations rant though.

          You can have the last word…

    2. “protect the fracking waste water that is pumped into the ground and eventually seeps into our aquafirs is the epitome of selfishness”

      There is no evidence that fracking water pumped below the surface gets into anything–IT’S GEOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!

  3. Cut thru the babble, and blame game of Porter Lansing. Stand up for
    american energy production. Go to southdakotaenergyforum.com, [email protected], or friendsofcoalwest.org, among others.

    1. I wouldn’t respond to any of Porter’s posts if I were you, Kevin. As Ron White said, “You can’t fix stupid.”

      Besides, facts don’t matter to socialist robots-they bow down to the altar of the Democratic party without a thought.

  5. What problem is the EPA addressing? Its just a naked authoritarian power grab.

    1. The huge problem of fracking and oil drilling water pollution, unregulated until now by an exemption ushered through by Dick CHENEY to benefit his financial interests in Haliburton Oilfield Services Inc. AND the problem of Big Corporate Farms spraying Enlist Duo on crops to kill weeds. The residue seeps into ground water and sits in dry stream beds until spring rains migrate it into streams and then rivers. It’s about pollution. #PonderThat

      1. Porter:

        This new EPA rule has NOTHING to do with subsurface waters. In other words, you’re ranting about something other than what the EPA’s new rule is meant to regulate.

        The EPA has ALWAYS been able to regulate pollution, above and below the surface.

        You haven’t a clue about what the EPA just did, do you?

        KOCH KOCH KOCH!!!

        What a fool.

        1. To answer your question. Yes, I have a quite proper working knowledge of what this EPA ruling does. Do you? Maybe you can expound on your interpretation for analyses? You’re misguided. It has to do with pollution on the surface in places not regulated before (ponds, ditches, dry streambeds) that, when polluted, seep into the subsurface water. Your floor, Mr. Insulter.

            1. See, it took some more research on YOUR part to FINALLY get it right.

              The new EPA rule has NOTHING to do with subsurface waters, or seepage into subsurface water sources.

              So much for knowing what you’re talking about.

  6. Closing Comment … If you enjoy duck and goose hunting like I do these new EPA regulations are the butter on our bread. Essentially, they give more teeth to the requests by Ducks Unlimited to protect the wetlands and any spot that becomes wet during the spring or once in a while. Spraying weed killer that washes into the area or leaving polluted ponds behind after oil drilling and fracking which sicken and kill migratory waterfowl is now regulated. The rules take NO land … they just impose penalties on those who abuse it and require permits if you want risk polluting our USA water.
    LWIY (last word is your’s), amigos.

  7. The main problem in my mind with Washington, DC think-tank bureaucrats running any program Coast to Coast in America is the impossibility of a geographically based program being of local sound science. Think about the CRP program and all the complexities involved in growing grass on large diverse acres weed free. Impossible to implement a one size fits all program and someone is going to get hurt badly. Water is our blessing in America as we have the largest contiguous breadbasket in the world running from the Appalachian’s to the Rocky Mountains. Screw that up with goofy water rules and people starve and Rural America takes a blood bath. Every State has a DNR which formulates sound locally based science concerning water rights and rules. Leave it that way!!!

  8. While we’re waiting for Mr. Insultasaurus to research his opinion let me bring up something dear to my heart. Our President, yesterday cut the amount of ethanol that will be required in our motor fuel. It will still increase but it will increase less than the mandate. Subsidizing corn gas is not “good for business” unless you’re a farmer. Reminds me of this one …”How does a farmer double his income?” Who knows the punch line? lol A political party so consumed with market forces that promotes our USA subsidizing ethanol seems a bit skewed, doesn’t it. Maybe it involved campaign donations from Big-Ag and a “yelling squirrel at my dog” attempt to play off the right’s fear of the Middle East, hmmmm?

  9. Mr. Wrong-nonymous …. You’ve been given enough time to make your case that the new EPA regs are a land grab and not a move to stop oil and gas and frackers and greedy farmers from polluting the unregulated portions of USA and it’s water as written in the regulations. Apparently you’ve no evidence of any land being grabbed or any land that will be moved from it’s present site and relocated in Kenya at the Obama Plantation. I’m working on the reduction in ethanol requirements now. Thank-you for bolstering my arguments. Insults will get you everywhere, huh?

    2. Mr. Lansing,

      It is high time we end mandates/subsidies to the ethanol industry and definitely end subsidies to coal and oil industries.

    3. ” the Obama Plantation. ”

      The Obama Plantation in Kenya was divided amongst Barack Sr.’s 20-25 children that he had with 15-20 different women, some whom he married in bigamous acts.

      The Obama Plantation in Kenya was divided in 1982 after the drunken Barack Sr. died in a car crash, probably while memorizing Che Guevara’s Greatest Speeches cassettte.

      The rotting apple does not fall far from the dying tree.

        1. It was the racist Porter who brought up an “Obama Plantation” in Kenya.

          Everything I wrote about Obama Sr. is factual.

        2. kkk guys can’t type. that’s why they chose a misspelled name that could be abbreviated with one letter. ‘one’ is an important number to the kkk. one ‘k’ to worry about, one race to worry about, one tooth in each guy’s head, one burning cross at a time.

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