Mr. Pruitt #EPA Administrator, is fully committed to enacting the President's agenda on environmental destruction, and today's action by the #EPA is no different. If you go back to the President's Executive Order of February 28, announcing the intent to rescind #WOTUS, it is laughable from both a scientific and legal framework.
In particular, the late Justice Scalia's opinion made claims that silt cannot be washed downstream, and yet §3 of the EO calls for Justice Scalia's interpretation be cited as the controlling interpretation of what is meant by navigable waters and waterways subject to scrutiny under the Clean Water Act.
It is now abundantly clear (shall we say, absent of turbidity?) that when Mr. Trump campaigned to drain the swamp, he meant that we should, forthwith, drain all remaining wetlands in our great nation. Goodbye migratory birds, dragonflies and butterflies, endangered reptiles and amphibians, beavers, and good luck to the young fish who rest in these wonderful areas that will now be ripe for development of the type that Rapanos and Carabell were known for when Rapanos v. United States was heard by #SCOTUS, but not really decided.
It took 9 years for #EPA and the #USACE to create #WOTUS in 2015, with substantial public input and engagement. Today's announcement of its undoing is not good news for clean water supporters in this nation. Looking forward to another opportunity to comment on environmental destruction; this truly is a #watershed moment in our nation's environmental history.
A headline could be: #POTUS takes out #WOTUS using #SCOTUS non-binding decision to invoke his #modus operandi.
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