Originally Posted By: sprkplug
I wonder if the definition of real pollution isn't what some, including myself, consider a sticking point. Who gets to decide what constitutes pollution?

If my ponds discharge fish, including non native or even indigenous species not found in local waterways, cutrine, fluridone, watermeal, duckweed, etc, into a neighbor's pond or even public water, isn't that a type of pollution?


But should all "polution" be the jurisdiction of the federal government? This looks like to me what you describe, based on the constitution, that this would be an issue for the states to address if they chose to do so. The federal government should only have power to regulate any polution that goes beyond state boundries and is of a national perspective.

A paralell example would be litterbug laws. Do we really want federal laws and federal fines for throwing trash along the roads? A federal trash agency and trash laws? Don't we already have more than enough Federal agencies and laws? After all, trash is a form of polution. This is a state issue and should be controlled by the state and the people that live in that state. But then I am for states rights and a very limited federal government. Governance closer to the people being governed.

Last edited by snrub; 03/01/17 09:58 PM.
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