Feeding the birds during winter is a nice thing to do, but doing it in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, will incur a $1,000-per-day fine. That’s what Bill and Diane Ganssle accidentally discovered. The couple was recently informed that their bird feeder ...
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EPA Control Over Private Streams And Creeks Listed As White House Priority
Proposed EPA regulations could soon impact how you use streams on your own land. The controversial Environmental Protection Agency proposals, previously reported by Off The Grid News, were listed as priorities on the White House’s 2013 fall regulatory agenda released ...
Read More »Obama Executive Order Could Impact How Homes Are Built
Climate change may not be among the pressing issues on your mind, but perhaps it should be. The task force created when President Obama signed his most recent executive order could eventually have control over where, when and how you ...
Read More »New EPA Guidelines Could Control Streams And Ditches On Private Property
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for what they call an “unprecedented” water rights power grab that could affect the private property of millions of Americans. The text in the new Clean Water Act guidelines ...
Read More »Man Imprisoned For Collecting Rainwater
Collecting rainwater in barrels is a common Earth-friendly and off-grid living practice, but the sustainable existence chore is illegal in many states. Unless you own the water rights on the property, it is not permissible to salvage rainwater in barrels ...
Read More »Tulsa Woman Sues City of For Destroying Her Edible Garden
TULSA, Oklahoma – Denise Morrison is suing the city of Tulsa because she says code enforcement officers destroyed her much needed garden without cause. Morrison said she had over 100 hundred varieties of plants in both her back and front ...
Read More »Alabama takes Lead by Banning United Nations Agenda 21
Though a number of cities and county governments have taken steps to break ties with what is sometimes known as the United Nations Agenda 21, Alabama has become the first state to take such a stand. The new Alabama law ...
Read More »Deed or Land Patent?
If I have a constitutional right to own property, and there is no tax legislation that can take away that right, then what loophole does the government use to make me pay to live on my own land and take ...
Read More »You Need Gold and Guns…Now!
I remember studying in my economics class how the process of civilization ends when a government systematically violates property rights. You can see this of course under communist governments, but it is a characteristic of any dictatorship. Peaceful civilization involves ...
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