As an OK resident, I have to caution everyone that even the "reddest" state is not entirely conservative. The GOP establishment still has a lot of pull, and is nervous about how nullification is perceived as "extremist", so don't be too disappointed if this effort falls short of actually passing.

Unfortunately, like most Americans, drastic action won't be attempted by Oklahomans until Federal government overreach becomes almost too powerful to overcome. No one wants to believe just how amoral our government has become, and it may take a violent wake up call to jar them to sensibility.

Nullification is a powerful tool. Go Oklahoma!

Most of the people I know who are both concerned about, and knowledgeable about, the environment are hunters and ranchers. Most of the people I know who support a Green agenda rarely, if ever, camp or actually go out into the wilderness. Bureaucracy is self-maintaining and, like kibble, tends to expand to the cube of the space available for it. When rivers were burning we did indeed need to say, "OMG! Rivers are burning: we need to do something about this." We did not need an agency that would, in the 21st century, earn its merit badges halting construction because a garter snake was found dead on the site. We do not need to spend 9 billion a year to depress the US economy. I am relieved that someone is at least trying to put a stop to the EPA.

Jan

Psy-Ops is a powerful thing for those who would grab for more power over our lives. The emotional argument posed in your sardonic tone does not convince me that had the EPA not been created we would currently be in a neanderthal chaos concerning the environment. Had property rights been properly enforced through seeking damages by legal means for the atrocity there would be no need for an overarching federal environmental protection agency digging into and sniffing around everywhere they can reach in order to stop or prevent every accident or atrocity from happening. Those have happened anyway, the deterant provided by the EPA has zero effect on what will happen until it goes in to simply shut down industries that create jobs and products that people want.

Be wary. The DOJ under Czar Holder will do everything they can to prevent this from happening.

Oklahoma is OK!

The looters keep arguing that rivers will be on fire and neighborhoods will be poisoned without the EPA. OK Nullification isn't about abolishing the EPA, it is about ignoring all rules not passed by congress or OK legislation. As usual the looters and rotters are running around screaming about the sky falling.

YES!!

What should be noted about the EPA is that they have assumed powers they were never explicitly granted by the legislature and that the legislature (ie Congress) has the full powers to restrict the EPA if they so choose. (yeah, right.)

One of the biggest things they could do is simply to define "navigable rivers". Right now, the EPA interprets this to mean any body of water no matter how small. The original intent was for major rivers and bodies used for commercial shipping/trading - not irrigation canals and fishing streams! Simply restricting the EPA's reach back to reasonable terms would do much - though I wouldn't count on Congress to do anything. I think that it will be up to the individual states and the nullification power to bring a halt to this.

If they can do this, it could change every thing. Then States would be able to stop any agency from coming in and just doing what ever they want. I hope it passes.

Alright Oklahoma. Go Sooners!

Nullification is a pet idea that has never worked. It was essentially what the Confederate states tried, and we know how that came out.
Check the link here for more info:
Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. The theory of nullification has been rejected repeatedly by Federal courts, and it has rarely been legally upheld.[1]

->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constitution)

But there is a way to change things, and it is to amend the Constitution via State run Article V (of the Constitution) for such amendments as term limits. That is an example of an amendment that would NEVER be put forth by Congress itself, but would be key to reversing this monster.
Indiana is leading the way here having passed State laws to restrict the actions of delegates preventing them from doing anything other than what the state intends.
See:
http://www.conventionofstates.com

Also note that from what I have seen, Nullification supporters utterly fail to see that that effort will never succeed for a number of reasons. Among them is the fact that Agencies like the EPA are unelected and create laws and regulations on their own without legislative action. That means they can turn them out as fast as the presses can run. Meanwhile, state legislatures have a lot of time required to do anything, with much uncertainty as to the result. And then you have this: Only 1 state out of 50 doing anything, bound to fail. The unlikely success would be 1 of 50. Still fail.
Regardless, the Nullification proponents hold to that idea, and are narrowly focused. That means they strongly oppose any other ideas than their own, and that includes Article V amendments.