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Watch where you spit! EPA may label it a ‘wetland’

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Be careful where you spit. You might create a wetland, as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. By adopting new loosey-goosey definitions, EPA aims to expand their control over people’s lives.

Claiming it’s merely to “clarify” their jurisdiction under the 1972 Clean Water Act, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers propose to expand their power with new regulations giving them authority over small, temporary and seasonal flows of water. Like where people spit. And of course mud puddles. Might kids splashing in a puddle become a federal offense?

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/istook-watch-where-you-spit-epa-may-declare-it-a-w/#ixzz3cVsnebjr