{"id":5345,"date":"2014-01-10T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2014-01-10T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:52:22","slug":"obama-administration-overrides-congress-by-giving-wyoming-town-over-to-indian-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/10\/obama-administration-overrides-congress-by-giving-wyoming-town-over-to-indian-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Overrides Congress By Giving Wyoming Town Over To Indian Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently overrode Congress by declaring a Wyoming town called Riverton a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA made the decision last month along with the Department of Interior and the Department of Justice \u2014 it has angered many of Riverton\u2019s citizens. Gov. Matt Mead said that by declaring Riverton was a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, government agencies violated tribal boundaries set by Congress in 1905. He said, \u201cMy deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state\u2019s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law. This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Gate reported, \u201cThe EPA addressed the reservation boundary issue in its decision last month that granted an application from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The tribes had applied to have the reservation treated as a separate state under the federal Clean Air Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/benswann.com\/obama-administration-overrides-congress-by-giving-wyoming-town-over-to-indian-tribe\/\" href=\"http:\/\/benswann.com\/obama-administration-overrides-congress-by-giving-wyoming-town-over-to-indian-tribe\/\">http:\/\/benswann.com\/ \u2026 ver-to-indian-tribe\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently overrode Congress by declaring a Wyoming town called Riverton a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The EPA made the decision last month along with the Department of Interior and the Department of Justice \u2014 it has angered many of Riverton\u2019s citizens. Gov. Matt Mead said that by declaring Riverton was a part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, government agencies violated tribal boundaries set by Congress in 1905. He said, \u201cMy deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state\u2019s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law. This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?\u201d The San Francisco Gate reported, \u201cThe EPA addressed the reservation boundary issue in its decision last month that granted an application from the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The tribes had applied to have the reservation treated as a separate state under the federal Clean Air Act.\u201d Full article: http:\/\/benswann.com\/ \u2026 ver-to-indian-tribe\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[653,1251],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-epa","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}