Pete Ricketts Schools EPA Administrator On 'The Definition Of Navigable,' Blasts New WOTUS Rule
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing to consider the FY2024 budget for the Environmental Protection agency, and Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) questioned EPA Administrator, Sec. Michael Regan.
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every time they bring up the last Administration, it really reminds me of how much better everything was.
Its time for Republicans to start defunding these federal bureaucracies. The EPA needs to be defunded and dismantled completely, along with DHS, ATF, DOE, etc.
Everything ends up at "the last administration ". I'm tired of it
Both parties keep playing us they need to be told to cut it the fuck out. These days there's only a handful of things I'm regular upset with the Republican Party what does acting confused and being unwilling to propose very simple Solutions probably is the worst.
agreed its a whole lot of bs coming out both sides. meanwhile nothing is changing for the better
Navigable Water! How is this so hard to understand? Stick tothe actual law, stop Admin'ing new changes!
He wants to give the Federal Government authority over mud puddles.
I'm not trying to attack you cuz you're absolutely right but the fact of the matter is that Authority is practically being handed out like candy. Clever questions after saying that one is confused combined with a metaphorical suspender snap is a fancy way of saying hey walk all over us
"We will adjust to that NEW definition." Hmm... changing definitions? Now where have we seen that before?
This is what happens when you hire for diversity instead of qualifications. This sets black people back decades
Previous Administration 2020 21 and 22 isn't under THIS Administration??🤔
Please don't give them any more ideas to "redefine change or remove" definitions of the English language 😅😂
He just admitted they are trying to get the program back to where it was before Trump which is Obama 3.0.
Pre-empting law.. totally illegal
It is a real shame that these so-called educated individuals have such a poor grasp of the English language and can't understand the meaning of simple words without having to consult with their word-salad colleagues to manufacture new and more convenient meanings
What a bunches of BS he's feeding us.
Get em Pete way to represent Nebraska
How to answer it accurately? Wtf
How does members of a sector of population that makes up only 20% or less of the population become heads of the majority of federal government administrations? And not very knowledgeable ones at that?
These people always want to change the written law to read what THEY want, not want the law requires.
Not ready for primetime.
They can rule every little puddle on every property. Taken more and more.
I guess he forgot about something that happened in 2020 that delayed a lot of things, Covid-19, yet he points blame at the Trump administration.
Ricketts argument about the definition of navigable waters would have been better served if he had appealed to the definition of the term that Congress had when they formed the legislation.
Disband THE EPA
Thats an affirmative action hire.
call them out as liers
He's a liar about the RFS Rule. Summary: On December 7, 2021, EPA proposed to deny more than 60 pending small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions from small refineries seeking exemption from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for one or more compliance years between 2016 and 2021. The proposed decision results from EPA’s review of the pending SRE petitions and supporting information, its legal, technical, and policy analysis of the CAA provisions relating to small refineries, and its application of the holdings of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Renewable Fuels Association et al. v. EPA (RFA).
In other words, Congress needs to, and should, pass a law even more than the original charter congress passed in creating the EPA to reign in their authority and power, as with all other federal agencies with regard to the statutory authority granted in said charters.
"Statutory authority refers to the powers and duties assigned to a government official or agency through a law passed by Congress or a state legislature. It is also known as a statutory grant of authority. At the federal level, Congress creates and authorizes agencies to administer government programs and enforce the law. Through statutory grants of authority from Congress, departments and agencies of the federal government obtain the authority to issue legally binding rules and resolve disputes through adjudication".
Each agency of the Executive Branch is granted this statutory authority to promulgate rules and regulations which carry the force of law allowing such so-called experts in these fields this authority which would otherwise be reserved to Congress according to Article I of the US Constitution.
Congress is allowed to delegate such authority to such agencies to do this and create these rules and regulations that carry the force of law as if passed by Congress. However, with these agencies and officials "not having their duty before them" they will expand their power until Congress reigns them in by passing laws limiting their authority do make these rules and regulations.
NO, US Congress needs to defund and disband the EPA.
Got to love how Forbes shuts down commenting on the video about "the left wing using trump to their advantage"
Why are we pretending the EPA actually does anything?
smooth talking bureaucrat who is to smooth with word salad.
a gay black guy...lol
This guys lying
EPA is about all but protecting environment