Epa is only involved in actually a small percentage of those. Why . Because the authority to look at these is spread among a number of agencies, and epa can you break it down so that we have an idea of what the problem really is with some of these mines that may affect the health and welfare of our communities . We can do our best but i can tell you that the ones we follow are the ones on the National Priorities list and the ones where we work with states to address what we consider to be an imminent threat or a need for emergency response. The upper animus was in that category. I would like to see if you can answer some of this for the whole committee. I am glad mr. Bishop is worried about fish and wildlife and the endangered species. Thats something that is near and dear to a lot of us. With that, your budgeting. How much budget do you require to be able to do a job to maybe look at avoiding what happened at las animus . We have an entiermevironmentd that allows us to tap for the res
From continued conflict in the southeast so that the nations army could instead focus its energies on subduing the Indian Tribes of the ohio river, north of the ohio river in an effort to expand the nations borders further west. Now, this treaty that was negotiated in 1790, the treaty of new york, it was celebrated by many, Many Americans, most americans thought this was a very good idea. But there were some who didnt. And many of those who did not agree with it were georgiaens. Particularly those men who lived in this area in the appalachians. Now, you remember we talked about the proclamation of 1763 which had drawn the line down the Appalachian Mountains and mandated that settlers could not move to the western side of the appalachians. Well, some of the folks who were most in favor of creating a new nation so they could push west of the appalachians were indeed these same farmers from georgia. Now, in exchange for peace, president washington had given up claims to land that were inc
Differences, what we read for today is its clearly not the case. What we see is in the 1790s, many of the divisions, many of the concerns that people who viewed the constitution in these folks came to see this still as a problem in the 1790s. The ratification of the constitution did not do away with these divisions. Instead they continued to manifest themselves. And we can see them manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Were going to talk about three ways today that are two clear examples. Examples that highlight the ways in which certain individuals, american citizens decided that they were going to rebel against the constitution and the federal government. In the 1790s we see two examples where rebels decided perhaps they decide to try to form their own more perfect union, their own country. One of these events takes place, or both of them take place in 1794. The first of them that were going to discuss is the whiskey rebellion, which takes place in 1794 in pennsylvania. As well d
Haunt them. Instead of protecting them against the indians, it was enabling the federal governments to prevented them from coming on to indian lands. It seemed to be they had made a bad bargain. They were quite alarmed at what had taken place. Of all the georgians it was the residents of the back country who were most upset at the treaty of new york and the federal governments actions. They lashed out at the decision and even began to question whether they wanted to remain citizens of a nation that they felt had abandoned them in their time of need. Thousands of settlers chose to ignore the terms of treaty and poured across the boundary, across the oconee river to the creek indians land. This prompted creek warriors to attack. And the result was frequent bloodshed and violence as the two groups launched raid after raid after counterraid. As growing numbers of settlers suffered at the hands of creek warriors, the settlers looked to the federal government for protection but none was fort
Least 17 other, many interrelated. So for example it wasnt a lone duel in and of itself but part of a larger trend. And when you look at all these political duels together you notice really interesting patterns. Most of them took place shortly after an election. And there were deliberately provoked. And a common ploy was one man would call another a selfinterested politician. And there is only one response to that sort of insult, which is you are a liar. And poof, you have a duel. It was very effective way of provoking. And many most cases the loser of an election would provoke the win ore are one of his friends into the duel. And what wore talking about here when looking at these duels. They were deliberately provoked and strategically timed. In other words Many American political duels were kind of like counter elections. Someone dishonored by an election, by losing an election tried to redeem his reputation by an aristocratic contest of hon e a duel. In essence american political du