EPA rulings on Non-point

[Ted Kegebein]

Awe yes, another endless, silly debate:

Joseph Zorzin wrote:
> 
> Ted Kegebein wrote:
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> > Joseph Zorzin wrote:
> > >
> > > Christopher Erickson wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you really want to see a mess, move down here to the border where we
> > > > don't have a single sovereign authority that can deal with transborder
> > > > pollution. Brainless children, toxic rivers, etc.
> > >
> > > Yup, that's what happens in societies that succeed in driving out
> > > environmentalists and other dangerous left wing types; all for the greater
> > > glory of the new world order and free trade. Sounds more like brainless right
> > > wingers.
> >
> > We have seen the results of putting the extreme Left Wing in power,
> > in such places as the USSR, Red China, Cambodia, and Nazi Germany.
> > And while the milder version of the Left in Nazi Germany was concerned
> > somewhat with the environment, the extremist Left purge the eco-nuts
> > rather quickly.
> 
> Did anybody here say something nice about the extreme left? I certainly didn't.

You did mention the "dangerous left" did you not?
 
> >
> >
> > Free market capitalist countries, on the other hand, have an extremely
> > high tolerance for the eco-nuts,
> 
> And an even higher tolerance for braid dead woodchucks who defend the party line of
> clearcutting and high grading.

Freedom does tolerate a lot, doesn't she?
 
> > and profits and prosperity have
> > allowed those cultures to actually improve their environments.
> 
> What improved the environments had NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH CAPITALISTS it had
> to do with your so called eco-nuts who fought for those enviro laws because those
> capitalists by themselves with their woodchuck and other right wing idiot
> "intellectual defenders" would never in a billion years have pushed for good enviro
> laws.

It seems I remember, but correct me if I'm wrong, that hated
Right Winger Richard Nixon created the EPA. But, I don't have
your knowledge of what will happen in a billion years, do I?
I might add that other hated Right Winger, Ronald Reagan, signed
the toughest environmental laws in the land (at its time) while 
he was governor of that close-minded state: California.
 
> >
> >
> > It is rather ironic, isn't it?
> 
> Yes, very. <G>

A rather lame come back by you, JZ. 
 
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> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Makes one want to join the trilatteral commission. New world order anyone.
> > > > JFiske <jfiske at lightlink.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:386d4244.0 at news2.lightlink.com...
> > > > > Whoops, hold it Ron! The Constitution says any rights not specifically
> > > > > granted to the Federal government are reserved to the states or to the
> > > > > people. Big difference there to my way of thinking.
> > > > >
> > > > > I do agree that some regulation by the Federal government is needed,
> > > > > especially in the case of air pollution (I live in the NE where most of
> > > > that
> > > > > crap ends up), but lets not get crosswise of the Constitution doing it.
> > > > > Ron Wenrich <woodtick at kaley.net> wrote in message
> > > > > news:s6n5mbus5k265 at corp.supernews.com...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ted Kegebein <kegebein at planttel.net> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:386947DA.2559E332 at planttel.net...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Having a conservative manner of thinking, I can assure you that
> > > > > > > you are wrong. Conservatives can read the Constitution, and we
> > > > > > > understand that no Federal agency has jurisdiction or authority
> > > > > > > over state matters. If the pollution crosses state boundaries,
> > > > > > > then, and only then, do the Feds have any Constitution authority
> > > > > > > if one loosely interprets the Commerce Clause.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is a state issue.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > I think the Consitution states that any jurisdiction the Feds don't
> > > > take,
> > > > > > then goes back to the states.  EPA has taken the jurisdiction, and it
> > > > > can't
> > > > > > be rescinded by the states.  Besides, most pollutants do cross state
> > > > > > borders, especially air and water pollutants.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We have a pharmaceutical company that put arsenic on their land.
> > > > > Eventually
> > > > > > it seeped into the water table.  EPA went after the clean up, not the
> > > > > state.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > RDW
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joe  Zorzin
> > > Massachusetts Licensed Forester #261
> > > http://forestmeister.com
> > >
> > > Member of Forest Steward's Guild
> > > http://www.foreststewardsguild.com/
> 
> --
> Joe  Zorzin
> Massachusetts Licensed Forester #261
> http://forestmeister.com
> 
> Member of Forest Steward's Guild
> http://www.foreststewardsguild.com/