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What in the Wetlands? Exposing the absurdity of EPA overreach
https://palmettopromise.org/wetland...TIxCUB9XQ7R3UILSTAIC0eM7zO4VQhBxoChFcQAvD_BwE
Simply this: the scope of the federal government’s power over your property is directly related to the definition of “significant nexus.”
If “significant nexus” means the federal government has the power to regulate all water that eventually flows into a navigable river, whether on the surface or underground, then the American people are legally liable for “interrupting” even the smallest area of saturated ground! The late Justice Scalia, who wrote the plurality decision for the court, summed up the reach of federal power the following way:
“The EPA has interpreted their jurisdiction to cover 270-to-300 million acres of swampy lands in the US — including half of Alaska and an area the size of California in the lower 48 states. The EPA has also asserted jurisdiction over virtually any parcel of land containing a channel or conduit — whether man-made or natural, broad or narrow, permanent or ephemeral — through which rainwater or drainage may occasionally or intermittently flow. On this view, the federally regulated “waters of the US” include storm drains, roadside ditches, ripples of sand in the desert that may contain water once a year, and lands that are covered by floodwaters every 100 years. Because they include the land containing storm sewers and desert washes, the statutory “waters of the United States” engulf entire cities and immense arid wastelands. In fact, the entire land area of the US lies in some drainage basin, and an endless network of visible channels furrows the entire surface, containing water ephemerally wherever the rain falls.
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