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Can the EPA be nullified? Oklahoma is leading the
charge
3 days ago | US |
Posted by Michael Lotfi

January 8, 2014

Oklahoma legislators have turned to nullification pursuant under the
Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution in an attempt to
fight back against the EPA’s unconstitutional rule making.

State Sen. Patrick Anderson recently submitted SB1167 to the Oklahoma Legislature. This bill will render
void all rules imposed by the EPA and not passed by Congress. It is absolute
nullification of that agency’s rulemaking in the state of Oklahoma.

From the bill:

“The Legislature declares that the rule-making authority of the
Environmental Protection Agency is not authorized by the Constitution of the
United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the
founders and ratifiers, and is hereby declared to be invalid in the State of
Oklahoma, shall not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by
this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this
state.”

The legislation also takes it a step further by empowering the state
lawmakers to actively block enforcement of such regulations.

“It shall be the duty of the Legislature of this state to adopt and
enact any and all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of
rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency which are not specifically
authorized by the Congress of the United States or specifically adopted by the
Oklahoma Legislature.”

Other states have noticed the move by Oklahoma and are now considering
legislation of their own. One Tennessee legislator plans to review the Oklahoma
plan and possibly introduce legislation this season.

To Lean More About Nullification Visit The Tenth Amendment Center.

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Belmont University, an award winning, private university located in Nashville,
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[email-masked]

DEFY the communist epa!

fake_ear

The State of Oklahoma is a fiction created by lawyers.

jake

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Tom Schneider

Wow. And so it begins in earnest.

good citizen

Great preamble, now let’s see the teeth.

Wayne D.

Brilliant, let’s turn the fracking oil companies loose and petrochemical
industry so they can do whatever they want as long as it provides a job. Don’t
these people understand the planet isn’t here to provide us with jobs? It
already provides everything we need for a healthy life. Corporations want to
rule the planet for a profit. Doesn’t anyone care about clean food, air and
water? Unconstitutional? Your money is unconstitutional but you continue to
bow to it as a god.

Draken

The EPA needs reform, not nullification. I don’t want another Love Canal,
or Cuyahoga River fire. There is still a need for the EPA. Just look at the
over a thousand Superfund sights in existence, including a few a little too
close to home for me in and around the Great Lakes. Now I will agree that the
EPA has gone too far off the deep end and needs to be reigned in a bit. But
this should be done by reform, not nullification or attempts to abolish the
agency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River#Environmental_concerns
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/

maybefree

Each state has their own EPA. So the federal level isn’t
needed.

Draken

Is pollution stopped at state borders I would agree. But pollution
flows down river, it travels in the air. Pollution in one state can easily
spread to another. The powers of one state do not extend over to another.
As a result there is a need for a Federal framework, a Federal
EPA.

Cliff Chism

By that logic, there is NO limit on federal authority… essentially
what we have today. Furthermore, it is in the states best interest to
maintain friendly relations with their neighbors. Just as there are many
downstream, there are many upstream. Interstate compacts between states
can be just as effective as federal edicts.

Cliff Chism

And, this can be done at a STATE level, where the government is more in
tune with those it governs, as opposed to a sprawling federal complex that
sucks up the rights of the citizenry. The individual is still the heart of
the state level citizenry, opposed to the “collective good” that is so often
promulgated at the federal
level.

JTCoyoté

The EPA is a tax funded agency, a non governmental concern that is
positioned in the executive branch at the cabinet level…an environmental
monopoly. It is not a constitutional agency as is the case with most of the
bloated executive branch… It can be defunded by Congress and
extinct-ed as the top down ineffective dinosaur it is.

It should be replaced by hundreds of free market competing environmental
research businesses in the private sector around the country at the local and
state level… funded by market concerns that are always present these days…
They would naturally work in open sharing of data, research, and internet
dissemination of information on environmental concerns based in REAL science
and not on governmental regulated protectionist policies and edicts that only
benefit the corporate government system at the expense of the people.

First order of business, get the industrial pollutants and dumbing
chemicals and medications out of our water and food… these Bastards have been
poisoning the people long enough!

JT

Paul

Wyoming needs to do likewise! End the illegal land
grabs!

Cliff Chism

Does it make any sense that one of the most powerful agencies in the United
States was created, not by Congress, but by executive fiat under Richard
Nixon?

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