By the end, DOGE could (should) realistically just say, "80% of government programs will be shut down and the rest are being downsized while receiving major overhauls".
⚡ACHTUNG!⚡ environmental thread
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I’ve been talking about this corrupt c for a long time
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More green scam by the guy who rails about fossil fuels constantly
There's an awful lot of this.
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Honestly feel dumb for not making money off my husband for all these years
And you should!
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My husband was freaking out about his timesheet malfunctioning lol
I love not having a timesheet. Every 2 weeks on Monday, I email the boss how many hours I worked each day LOL.
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I don’t think we’ve discussed what an absolute scam the esa is in blocking development and making life for humans more costly and unpleasant
How did they not know that then?
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A lot of critters look like other critters, and generally a judge will shut down a project on an enviro groups say so.
Unsurprising. Relatedly, every puddle becomes a wetland if you want to develop near it.
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I’ve been trying to change this with my pals for years!!!
The "stop developing Old Florida" crowd bitch about this nonstep. All the wetlands, don't you dare fill in even the smallest one!
The government does it 100 acres at a time (they do reclamation though, it's the law.....they don't know that you can't touch a wetland without replacing it nearby, so really no harm done)
The government does it 100 acres at a time (they do reclamation though, it's the law.....they don't know that you can't touch a wetland without replacing it nearby, so really no harm done)
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The mitigation rule is in desperate need of updating. Florida tried to get permit delegation from the corps but Biden DOJ and activist judge shut it down
Most of my experience with it was with NASA and ACOE projects.....Never seemed to be an issue. I'm guessing the Feds don't play by their own rules
But I haven't been a part of that for years now. Private developers and small chains don't have a prayer of getting mitigation approved, nor can they afford it. It's easier to just work around it.
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SCOTUS was pretty clear in sackett. Hopefully the rule will be clearer that Trump admin puts out, and scotus won't let a district judge kill it nationwide. some good people I know have put their names in to write the rule! Hopefully they staff up and dont dick around.
What needs to change? That's well out of my purview
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Ephemerals out. Can’t use a non jurisdictional feature (like a dry ditch) to connect features. Exemptions need to be clearer so the corps can’t hem and haw
That's stupid. Wetlands average WL can be at different elevations on the same site. It makes sense to connect them with a dry ditch sometimes if there's a risk of flooding to act as an overflow to reduce the floodplain. It's not much different than us using storm pipes/inlets to connect stormwater ponds across a site. I have one we're doing right now. A pond on opposite ends of the site with a big building between them, but several feet in elevation difference. The low end pond fills up past DHW, it works it's way up to the other pond through the system and if in some 100 year event, then the overflow to city storm. It's the same principle for wetlands that's completely rational.
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Dude I’m saying those things shouldn’t be federally jurisdictional under the cwa and require permitting and mitigation. I know water flows downhill
I know, I was long windedly agreeing with you for why those shouldn't be regulated
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Sorry I get touchy about it 
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