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Bill Gertz The Washington Times 5/28/2014 A 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration’s potential use of military force against Americans. The directive contains noncontroversial provisions on support to civilian fire and emergency services, special events and the domestic use […] May 29th, 2014 | Tags: “Defense Support of Civil Authorities”, domestic unrest, drones, emergency powers, Patriot Act, Posse Comitatus Act, SWAT team, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Defense, Military, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Richard C. Young 3/17/2014 Welder Andy Johnson and his wife have built a natural fishpond on their property for their Wyoming family. Now the statist regulators of Obama’s EPA are threatening citizen Johnson with $75,000/day in fines, saying Andy is not in compliance with federal laws governing, I presume, family fishponds on private land. (Andy’s […] March 17th, 2014 | Tags: Andy Johnson, bureaucracy, Clean Water Act, Sen. David Vitter, Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. Mike Enzi, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water | Category: Environmental Protection Agency, Property rights, Wyoming | Comments are closed
Damon W. Root Reason Magazine 12/4/2012 The federal government suffered a major defeat today at the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States. In their unanimous decision, the justices rejected the government’s sweeping claim that a series of recurring floods induced by the U.S. Army Corps of […] December 4th, 2012 | Tags: Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States, Edwin Kneedler, floods, Takings Clause, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Category: 5th Amendment, Arkansas, Environment, Federal Government, Property rights, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 8/16/2012 The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) preemptive assessment of the Pebble Mine in Alaska could have a “chilling effect” on $220 billion in investments, according to the Brattle Group, an economic and financial consulting firm. In May, the EPA released its watershed assessment of large-scale mining by Pebble LP at […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: Bristol Bay, Clean Water Act (CWA), coal, copper, gold, mining, Pebble Mine, Rep. Darrell Issa, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water | Category: Alaska, China, Economy, Employment, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
J. D. Heyes Natural News 6/14/2012 As the federal Leviathan becomes ever larger and all-powerful, its Executive Branch tentacles reach further and further into the American fabric as it seeks to exert authority and control over more and more of our lives. The latest power-mad grab can be attributed to the not-so-illustrious Environmental Protection Agency […] June 21st, 2012 | Tags: "navigable waters", Clean Water Act (CWA), ditches, Eminent Domain, gullies, Kelo v. City of New London, Rep. Bob Gibbs, Rep. John Mica, Rep. Nick Rahall, rule of law, Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Rand Paul, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Cap and Trade, Congress, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations, New Jersey, Progressives, Property rights, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Vicki Smith Associated Press via The Republic 3/23/2012 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A federal judge says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal mine. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of St. […] March 25th, 2012 | Tags: Arch, coal, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, mining, mountaintop removal, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Category: Environmental Protection Agency, Missouri, West Virginia | Comments are closed
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