Poe, who serves on the Mariposa (CA) County Board of Supervisors, has been suction dredge mining since 2007. Too often, the liberty of citizens like Poe is curtailed they find themselves fighting the weight of the federal government and facing fines and imprisonment. This subverts the principle of government of, by, and for the people.

Unelected bureaucrats constituting the ‘administrative state’ have imposed thousands of regulations on many aspects of our lives. More broadly, whether it must be allowed. The crux of the issue is whether arbitrary interpretation of the law by an independent executive agency like the EPA, run by bureaucrats and experts and insulated from elected authority, holds weight. The PLF maintains this is indefensible, and points out that the 33-year-old ruling has essentially been overruled by the Supreme Court on at least two occasions. District Court in Idaho relied on a 1990 judgement of the Ninth Circuit court that went by the Environment Protection Agency ’s (EPA) dubious interpretation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The foundation says that in fining Poe, the U.S. He is being defended by the pro bono law firm Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). In March this year, Poe appealed the ruling in the U.S. Poe ’s suction dredge mining added pollutants to the South Fork Clearwater River.” Bush (see page 11 of his judgement) had determined that “the very nature of Mr. Which means the activity isn ’t banned outright as polluting. Patricco in September 2022, was for not obtaining permits for suction mining (NPDES permit IDG370000). Technically, the fine, imposed by Chief U.S. So Shannon Poe, a suction dredge miner, ended up paying a $150,000 fine after a citizen suit was brought against him in 2018 by the Idaho Conservation League (ICL). But an overzealous Idaho green group and a federal court do not see it that way. Are you polluting the stream? Common sense dictates one answer. After removing some solid material, you let the remainder flow back into the stream without adding anything. Let us suppose you draw water and sediment in small quantities from a stream bed.

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