EPA is brushed back

[brenthutch 383]

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/25/supreme-court-epa-wetlands-clean-water-act
 

Mud puddles across the nation have been liberated from the tyranny of an overreaching Environmental Protection Agency.

[Phil1111 910]

Just another legacy of trump. Now overflow wetland areas that provide relief and storage when large rainfall events take place can be built on. Then the builders and developers can shift the flooding liabilities to the US government. i.e. the taxpayer. As usual conservatives want laws to make money off the expense of the public."Brett Kavanaugh, one of the conservative justices, sided with the three liberals to warn that the court will “leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States”.

Politics above science as usual in America. Biden and the stupid liberals need to get  their heads out of their asses. Need to get two more SC justices on the bench when they control the senate and the house again.

While republicans invent WOKE enemies to galvanize support by their base. Liberals need to take aim at activist judges and courts.

Edited May 28, 2023 by Phil1111

[brenthutch 383]

10 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Politics above science as usual in America. Biden and the stupid liberals need to get  their heads out of their asses. Need to get three more SC justices on the bench when they control the senate and the house again.

FYI the House is not relevant with regard to SC nominations and the Ds currently have control in the Senate. But by all means go ahead and overreach… that is exactly how you got a super majority of conservatives on the bench.

Edited May 28, 2023 by brenthutch

[JoeWeber 2,297]

7 hours ago, brenthutch said:

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/25/supreme-court-epa-wetlands-clean-water-act
 

Mud puddles across the nation have been liberated from the tyranny of an overreaching Environmental Protection Agency.

Those "mud puddles" are called riparian zones. They have outsized ecological importance except to those who prefer ignorance and tribalism over knowledge.

[DougH 270]

Mud puddles, brilliant.

If only we could become so unshackled from the tyranny of environmental protection that rivers could start catching fire again. That was awesome! Could you imagine the end zone dance from all the conservatives if we could get back to that Golden Era?

"Nasty stuff in our ground water, wooohooo." "Cancer clusters, YESSSSSS, take that you snow flake cucks, that is true freedom" "Leave those Corporations alone, this is America we have freedom, let them fuck things up for our kids and grand kids".

[billvon 2,394]

Gotta wonder how much conservatives had to pay Clarence Thomas for THAT decision.  Figure it's in the tens of millions?

[olofscience 420]

Geez. 

Brent probably longs for the return of asbestos, lead in gasoline, glass, and paint, and misses the good ol' days of smog-filled LA just to own the libs living rent-free in his head.

[brenthutch 383]

7 hours ago, billvon said:

Gotta wonder how much conservatives had to pay Clarence Thomas for THAT decision.  Figure it's in the tens of millions?

Clarence Thomas?!?! What about the three liberals?  It was a unanimous decision.

[kallend 1,623]

:

“The Court concludes that wetlands in that second category are not covered as adjacent wetlands because those wetlands do not have a continuous surface connection to a covered water — in other words, those wetlands are not adjoining the covered water.  I disagree because the statutory text (‘adjacent’) does not require a continuous surface connection between those wetlands and covered waters.” - Justice Kavanaugh.

 

Seems the other conservatives need an English dictionary to tell them the difference between "adjacent to" and "connected to".

[ryoder 1,381]

2 hours ago, olofscience said:

Geez. 

Brent probably longs for the return of asbestos, lead in gasoline, glass, and paint, and misses the good ol' days of smog-filled LA just to own the libs living rent-free in his head.

And hexavalent chromium in the drinking water.

[JoeWeber 2,297]

8 minutes ago, kallend said:

:

“The Court concludes that wetlands in that second category are not covered as adjacent wetlands because those wetlands do not have a continuous surface connection to a covered water — in other words, those wetlands are not adjoining the covered water.  I disagree because the statutory text (‘adjacent’) does not require a continuous surface connection between those wetlands and covered waters.” - Justice Kavanaugh.

 

Seems the other conservatives need an English dictionary to tell them the difference between "adjacent to" and "connected to".

Adjacent and adjoining I think is their bafflement. No matter, by their logic your arterial and veinous systems are not adjoining or adjacent being below the surface as they are. Such taterheads, they are.