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BREAKING: The EPA has stripped Oklahoma's tribes of regulatory sovereignty over environmental matters and handed it to the state's governor.
This is a huge deal.
@tihuachang has the exclusive report for @tytinvestigates: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/65Oa5a0nYI4rljnOqxhUto
This is a huge deal.
@tihuachang has the exclusive report for @tytinvestigates: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/65Oa5a0nYI4rljnOqxhUto
As Ti-Hua reports, Oklahoma's tribes would be powerless to prevent wholesale dumping on tribal lands or protect them from a vast array of toxic materials and pollutants.
The EPA never appears to have made the public aware that this decision-making process was under way.
As Ti-Hua first reported, the state's tribes were first told on Aug. 25--with a response deadline of Sept. 21, less than one month: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/7yzOow5PLu5kOpyfovH5ET
As Ti-Hua first reported, the state's tribes were first told on Aug. 25--with a response deadline of Sept. 21, less than one month: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/7yzOow5PLu5kOpyfovH5ET
Not surprisingly, the new EPA documents Ti-Hua obtained reveal that the tribes even told the EPA they needed more time to formulate and submit their responses:
Who found out about all this BEFORE the tribes did?
Oklahoma's petroleum and big ag industries. They first learned of it literally THE DAY Oklahoma's governor asked the EPA to kneecap the tribes.
Ti-Hua ALSO broke THIS story.
IS ANYONE ELSE PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS???
Oklahoma's petroleum and big ag industries. They first learned of it literally THE DAY Oklahoma's governor asked the EPA to kneecap the tribes.
Ti-Hua ALSO broke THIS story.
IS ANYONE ELSE PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS???
The Supreme Court said Congress has the last word.
And a 2005 rider carved out a path for the state to ask the EPA to do exactly what it just did.
Who wrote the rider? Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Who helped him? His aide, Andrew Wheeler...now the EPA administrator.
And a 2005 rider carved out a path for the state to ask the EPA to do exactly what it just did.
Who wrote the rider? Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
Who helped him? His aide, Andrew Wheeler...now the EPA administrator.
Here's the statement we got from Casey Camp-Horinek, Environmental Ambassador & Elder & Hereditary Drumkeeper Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma:
Stitt's letter requesting the EPA's intervention was dated -- and first posted online -- on July 22...
...by the Oklahoma Petroleum Alliance.
https://mcusercontent.com/325f73d29a0b4f85a46b700a9/files/e9463627-4cc9-46e2-a42c-26b20b59f26e/SAFETEA_request_to_Administer_final.02.pdf
...by the Oklahoma Petroleum Alliance.
https://mcusercontent.com/325f73d29a0b4f85a46b700a9/files/e9463627-4cc9-46e2-a42c-26b20b59f26e/SAFETEA_request_to_Administer_final.02.pdf
You can read the EPA's response, which Ti-Hua obtained and posted online, here:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9c26a810-0dec-46bf-a0a7-55ca523d6ffc
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9c26a810-0dec-46bf-a0a7-55ca523d6ffc
