EPA ruling on Wyoming Indian Reservation

I just hadn't read about this... it should make the scotus... and the result could be telling.

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/the-stream/the-stream-officialblog/2014/1/10/epa-ruling-sets-upbattleoverindiancountryboundariesinwyoming.html

Question.

how could they have ruled to even make it residential to have been sold legally to home owners etc outside the reservation. Someone would have had to have a deed right?

From what I gathered from that article and another was that the epa granted some sort of clear air act control.

I'm not even sure what that means yet... will they simply extort some sort of carbon tax... does it give them other rights?

I haven't read the ruling or the appeals yet... but it did say that the epa overrode a congressional law or precedent.

We'll see I guess.

Edit: Also the way the tribe/reservation was given that control was to deem them the status of a state.

Clueless

I found this on a blog.

Well, for some strange reason, Obama’s goon squad has obliged the Indian’s request even though the borders were place there in 1905. Now the 10,000 residents of the town are being forced to stick to their guns and stay there, or forfeit their land. The choice here though isn’t quite so simple. If the residents decide to stay, they would not be, “eligible for state or federal services.” Along with this, they may just get tossed off their land they bought anyways because the, “deeds do not have to be recognized by the Indians

http://www.datehookup.com/Thread-1289413.htm

id be interested in knowing what the 1905 congressional deal was.

seems fishy this whole thing

seems the funds of those properties did go to the reservation and that the Indians ceded the land and signed the treaty.

http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-12/documents/epawr009733.pdf

The above is from the EPA, and its their argument of why they can do this. Its long and frankly when I read the first part it seemed pretty clear to me a deal had been reached. yes the deal seemed a little unfair but a deal never the less.

I think the bigger question is , why is the EPA doing this and why NOW?

a huge population of people live in this area. again, somethings fishy about this whole thing.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:All Indian tribes have the same sovereignty as states do. You will often hear them referred-to together as "Tribes and States."

Back in 1998, I wrote the environmental-law code for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians up in Atmore. When I finished it, I gave a presentation of the new code to the Tribal Council. Those folks surprised me, because looking at them, none of them could have been more than 25% native American.

Yeah, ive noticed that. I should give up my worries in the white mans world and go take my rightful place as a Indian princess in the mountains of crackville