{"id":441,"date":"2013-10-22T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-10-22T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:04:00","slug":"obamas-epa-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/obamas-epa-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s EPA Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama warned us he would use the EPA to accomplish things he could not get by Congress.<\/p>\n<p><em>Calling the plan a &#8220;massive power grab,&#8221; Republican lawmakers are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to explain why it\u2019s in such a rush to implement a federal regulation which they argue could have a major impact on private property rights.<\/p>\n<p>At issue are new federal rules pertaining to the Clean Water Act. The EPA says it\u2019s working on new regulations because there is confusion about small streams and wetlands, &#8220;some of which only flow after precipitation or dry up during parts of the year.&#8221; <\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/21\/gop-lawmakers-grill-epa-on-water-reg-power-grab\/\">Read More&#8230; see video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama warned us he would use the EPA to accomplish things he could not get by Congress. Calling the plan a &#8220;massive power grab,&#8221; Republican lawmakers are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to explain why it\u2019s in such a rush to implement a federal regulation which they argue could have a major impact on private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}