Obama asserts power over small waterways

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The Hill

Obama asserts power over small waterways

By Timothy Cama

The Obama administration asserted its authoriry Wednesday over the nation's small waterways like streams and wetlands, moving forward on one of the most controversial pollution rules of recent years.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers said they are making final their proposed waters of the United States rule, which Republicans and many businesses have long panned as a massive federal overreach that would put the EPA in charge of ditches, puddles and wet areas.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/243179-obama-asserts-power-over-small-waterways

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1. This is good, but why couldn't he & the EPA have protected the Ohio River as well?

3 million people get their potable water from the Ohio River, and yet they're not only allowing radioactive, benzene-containing fracking waste to be carried by barge on the Ohio River, but fracking itself will be happening under the Ohio River.