Chalk one up for the little guys. After the Environmental Protection Agency tried to threaten a local welder with thousands of dollars daily fines, the man fought back, and came out on top.
A Wyoming man threatened with $16 million in fines over the building of a stock pond reached a settlement with the Environment Protection Agency, allowing him to keep the pond without a federal permit or hefty fine.
Andy Johnson, of Fort Bridger, Wyoming obtained a state permit before building the stock pond in 2012 on his sprawling nine-acre farm for a small herd of livestock.
Not long after contruction, the EPA threatened Johnson with civil and criminal penalties – including the threat of a $37,500-a-day fine — claiming he needed the agency’s permission before building the 40-by-300 foot pond, which is filled by a natural stream.
Johnson constructed his stock pond in 2012.
“It was very threatening,” Johnson, a professional welder and married father of four, said of the EPA’s compliance order against him.“I was shocked and devastated and I didn’t know what to do,” Johnson told FoxNews.com Tuesday. “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘I’m the only provider for my whole family. How can I fight this?'”
But fight it he did — and he won. This isn’t just a win for the man and his pond, it’s a win for all everyday Americans who are trying to get the government off their backs and out of their business.
Source: Fox News
you should change the name of your site to ‘Next Page’. Cute way to get twice as many clicks. it’s a little annoying,
Excellent on your Win,the blank Government has there sticky fingers in America and thats a Damn Shame.
leave the guy alone! His land he pays taxe’s you are just looking for more money
Government should be sued for what this gestapo gov did to this family!!! November can’t come soon enough!!!
EPA has got to go