Senator Blunt Welcomes EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy To Missouri

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement today regarding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy’s visit to Missouri to discuss the EPA’s proposed rule to expand federal authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA):
“Missouri homeowners, small business owners, families, and farmers are rightly concerned about the EPA’s proposed water rule, which is another blatant overreach into Americans’ private lives and property by the Obama administration. While I’m pleased to see Gina McCarthy visiting Missouri this week, my advice to her is to spend as much time listening to Missourians as she does talking, and she might very well find out that Missourians’ concerns about the expansion of the law are broad-based and genuine.”
Last month, Blunt joined U.S. Senator John Barrasso (Wyo.) and 28 colleagues to introduce the “Protecting Water and Property Rights Act of 2014,” legislation to stop the EPA from taking over all private and state water in the United States.
According to the Springfield News-Leader, in a conference call with reporters yesterday, McCarthy called some assertions about the rule “silly” and “ludicrous” and said her trip to Missouri is part of a broader campaign to reassure the agriculture community and “set the record straight.”
Read this original document at: http://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ID=5abc3cc5-81d9-4853-a9ef-b45e5f8920a2