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Exclusive: After a victory in efforts to revoke the Biden-era clean water regulations, Senate Governor Joni Ernst proposed a permanent policy exclusion Thursday to prevent future democratic governments from “surpassing”.
“If you try to browse the wastewater treatment pool, you’re going to be a creek without paddles,” said R-Iowa Ernst, mocking her and many Heartland landowners for thinking the federal government sees it as a water that is clearly undeserved.
Rainwater pools, farm runoff, small property ponds, and other bodies of transient or seasonal waters such as grassland potholes and temporary channels are suddenly subject to federal regulations rather than local farmers or landowners.
“WOTUS regulatory uncertainty threatens the livelihoods of hard-working Iowa farmers, small businesses and landowners, and it’s been too long, and I’m happy to join EPA administrator (Lee) Zeldin Zeldin announced that the Trump administration is declaring this misleading and harmful regulatory expansion in amendment.
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Ernst said the law’s original Biden and Obama’s expansion was disastrous and “beyond”, which continue the Democratic trend, “increasingly unnecessary environmental regulations to overwhelm the common sense voice of hard-working Americans.”
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said Ernst’s Clear Water Act will provide the necessary clarity and consistency for WOTUS regulations.
Nag said the ongoing policy whipping should be “end as every new government changes”.
“It’s a common sense approach that makes sure people working every day to manage our land and water responsibly.”
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The Supreme Court ruled in Sackett v. EPA in 2023 to deprive Biden Administration of some control through its “major Nexus” test of the waterway classification.
Judge Samuel Alito wrote in a 9-0 majority view that the EPA ordered Idaho landowners Michael and Chantell Sackett to restore wetlands where they were building houses or paying $40,000 a day.
Alito said the EPA considers the area to be wetlands because “they are close to the ditch that leads into the stream and into the Pastor Lake; a navigable internal lake.”
“The Sacketts sued, alleging that their property was not ‘U.S. waters.'”
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The decision angered Democrats, including New York’s Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said “The Margoga Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.”
“There is no doubt that this ruling will mean more polluting water and more destruction of wetlands,” he warned.
Chris Pandolfo of Fox News contributes to the report.
