House approves bill seeking to upend EPA pesticide rule

[Judas]

[quote] The House on Wednesday passed a Republican-backed measure reversing an Environmental Protection Agency requirement that those spraying pesticides on or near rivers and lakes file for a permit.

The chamber voted largely along party lines to approve the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017. In the preceding floor debate, the bill's supporters said the rule requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act before spraying pesticides is burdensome and duplicative. EPA already regulates pesticide safety under a different law that gives the agency authority to place restrictions on when and where spraying can occur.[/quote]

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-approves-bill-seeking-upend-epa-pesticide-rule-47622407[/url]

[Killer900]

Hard to find words for this, this is pathetic, what is happening to this country?

[Orpheus]

Gotta love how they wrap this shit up in an innocent-sounding title like "Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017"...Like who do they actually think they're fooling with this bullshit?

[FreakyMe]

[QUOTE=Killer900;52272015]Hard to find words for this, this is pathetic, what is happening to this country?[/QUOTE]

Bureaucratic Ecological Terrorism.

[Ermac20]

It actually baffles me how fast were causing our own demise as a species

[kariko]

[QUOTE=mcharest;52272020]Gotta love how they wrap this shit up in an innocent-sounding title like "Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017"...Like who do they actually think they're fooling with this bullshit?[/QUOTE]

I like someone's suggestion that they should be forced to use generic names for the bills so they can't pull shit like that.

[c:]

It's like they're cashing in on as many upended bills as they can before they're all kicked out of their offices.

[Mr. Someguy]

Why don't we cut out the middle man and just spray Agent Orange right over our water supply?

[Revenge282]

Next, all sewage overflows will be required to dump in the river upstream from the city they serve...

[Snowmew]

[QUOTE=c:;52272132]It's like they're cashing in on as many upended bills as they can before they're all kicked out of their offices.[/QUOTE]

If only it were as easy as passing a "Republican Damage Reversal Act of 2019"... this is going to take a while to fix.

[AnnieOakley]

[QUOTE=The golden;52273364]We will gladly kill ourselves in our lust for short-term material wealth. It's actually extremely pathetic and primitive.[/QUOTE]

Also we allow ridiculously large holdings of societal power in finances to be passed down simply because the person is related the person who had the power, which causes it to clot up to a small percentage holding a majority of it regardless of if they're doing anything productive with it.

[markfu]

Man at first I thought they were reversing their previous rule about allowing the use of that pesticide that poisoned those farmers a week ago.

Then I read the article.

[tsar]

[QUOTE=Killer900;52272015]Hard to find words for this, this is pathetic, what is happening to this country?[/QUOTE]

The American Right is being taken over by a political cult

[joshuadim]

[QUOTE]In the preceding floor debate, the bill's supporters said the rule requiring a permit under the Clean Water Act before spraying pesticides is burdensome and duplicative. [B]EPA already regulates pesticide safety under a different law that gives the agency authority to place restrictions on when and where spraying can occur.[/B][/QUOTE]

Can anyone find this "different law"?

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=joshuadim;52273483]Can anyone find this "different law"?[/QUOTE]

"well in some states where they require the same thing it is burdensome so we should make it worse for everybody else then..."

[FreakyMe]

The best part about this "redundant law" defense is that they are talking about the EPA, an agency which the administration is doing everything in its power to deprive of power, staff, and funding.

It doesn't and won't have the manpower to defend our waterways. Meanwhile, the CDC has OVER 700 vacant positions, so odds are we will not be catching the poisoning to nip it in the bud. It will be too late for an entire generation in some areas, and entire family lines will die out or be condemned to struggle to survive against genetic mutations and physical disorders brought on by toxic and carcinogenic chemical exposure.