The Northwest Florida Daily News describes the latest efforts by the EPA to bankrupt state and local governments. Consider: the EPA consists of thousands of crackpots whose entire job revolves around dreaming up new ways to regulate you. Their latest brainstorm: 'Numeric Nutrient Standards' that will cost just one small city in Florida $32 million to implement.
A contentious federal rule regulating nutrients in Florida’s waterways could cost the city $32 million to implement, officials say... The Crestview City Council has joined cities across the state by approving a resolution that condemns the Environmental Protection Agency’s requirement titled Numeric Nutrient Standards... The regulation imposes water pollution standards critics say will be nearly impossible to meet.
...The EPA has singled out Florida for implementation of the rule, which is scheduled to take effect Nov. 14. Opponents say the agency is using the state as a guinea pig to test the new rules... Iannucci said an analysis of the EPA directive shows it requires the state to make spring water even cleaner than naturally occurring spring water already is, “which is technologically impossible.”
...The EPA agreed to set the rule to settle a lawsuit by environmental groups and to comply with federal law... The cost could be staggering if the new rule is implemented, Steele said... "The only way we could come close to it (the new guidelines) would be reverse osmosis," a process that could cost $32 million and that "still isn’t guaranteed to work," he said.
The EPA needs to be de-funded completely.
That will throw thousands of eco-Marxists out of work, which will force them to get real jobs. And learn how the private sector works.
And it will also reduce the EPA's carbon footprint.
Hat tip: S&J.
Towns states and cities just have to say "NO" to this crap. Will the feds come down and try and arrest the mayor?
ReplyDeleteIn our small town, the EPA just passed a law that we can not wash cars in the street. We have to wash them in our yard.
ReplyDeleteHow long till green peace shows up to protest us killing our lawns?
They also passed a law that people on wells, THEIR OWN WATER WELLS, have to install a water meter that will shut off their pumps if they exceed "their" water limit..
Who are these people?
My mother was the mayor of a small town, if not in that state. All I will say, from seeing things from the "inside"... what the state wants is bobble heads who fix the paperwork to match the requirements, they could care less about safety, laws, or such. My guess is, what mayors who surrender to this will do is buy a small r.o. system, install it on one of the outlets, which they clean with bleach, run, clean again. Then run the r.o. after the bleaching, then take the damn test and... voila... they pass! (And, no, she did not come up with this. The state 'trained' her how to do it "right".)
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how much foolish waste of money goes on to make the EPA happy, very possibly leaving people open to real problems. Such is bloated corrupt bureaucracy.
A close reading shows that this was EPA's way of resolving a lawsuit. So there's blame to go around. First, the enviroweenies who brought the suit, the EPA who came up with the regulations, and the judge who approved it.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Richard Milhous Nixon CREATED the EPA.
Yes, it is a dumb rule, created without political input or cost sensitivity or benefit quantification.
The first step is laughing at the Dictator, then comes ignoring him and his minions.