Before Congress takes back control from overreaching, politically motivated bureaucrats?
Daily Signal (12/3/19) reports: "No one told Jack LaPant that he could be in violation of the Clean Water Act for farming his own land. That’s mostly because the federal law includes a clear exemption for 'normal' farming activities. But it’s also because the government officials LaPant consulted didn’t view overturned dirt that has been tilled and plowed as pollution. In 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers, which administers the Clean Water Act with the Environmental Protection Agency, began legal action against LaPant for plowing he did in 2011 to plant wheat on a ranch property he owned in Northern California. But in March 2012, LaPant had sold the property, located in Tehama County about 4 miles south of the city of Red Bluff...What’s particularly alarming to LaPant and other farmers familiar with his case is that in their view the Corps saw fit to modify the Clean Water Act without congressional approval, Francois said. 'There’s a pretty broad, clear statement in the Clean Water Act that you don’t need a permit for normal farming activities.'"
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"There are ways to incentivize change and a green revolution. It is called competition and creative destruction. None of those are favored by governments, not because they are evil, but because governments have the incentive to maintain the obsolete sectors via subsidies."
– Daniel Lacalle.
Mises Institute
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