Quote:Can you explain why a federal employee can't be fired for being a convicted felon?

Well since I actually read the article I know the EPA did fire him. They were overruled by the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency wholly independent from the EPA. The EPA then paid the employee to by rid of the problem rather then spend the money to fight the case in court. Seems like the issue isn't with the EPA but with the MSRP.

 

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Can you explain why there was a need for the EPA to go after the man that built a pond on his own property?

Seems like a private individual damming a public source of water for his own purposes is exactly the kind of thing authorities would like to know about. The fact they probably didn't have the authority to compel him to remove the pond would have been tested in the courts, which seems to me like the system is working. BTW, the "boom for the environment" is a direct quote from the man's lawyer. Hardly a fair and balanced source.

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