Quote:Also, feel free to -gasp- learn something. Maybe you won't look like such a rightwing nutjob.

https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do

I wouldn't count on it tho, seaman.

 

Actually, when I was E-3 and below I was referred to as "Airman".  I worked in the aviation part of The Navy not the surface or sub-surface part.

 

Quote: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.

 

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.

 

Regarding your first point, did the MSPB (yet another useless government entity) pay him, or did the EPA pay him?  Either way it was more money out of my pocket (as an actual tax payer).

 

Regarding your second point.  He was damming a natural source of water not used for human consumption or "average use".  Farmers, ranchers, etc. usually do that and have been doing it for years.  I don't know if in your visit(s) to our country you ever got out to the "real heart" of the U.S., but those folks aren't too keen on government interfering with normal life.

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