Monday, March 17, 2014

Rancher Faces $75,000-A-Day In EPA Fines For Building Pond On His Land


A Wyoming rancher is facing a $75,000 a day fine from the Environmental Protection Agency because he built a stock pond on his own property.

The agency claims private landowner Andrew Johnson violated the Clean Water Act by building the pond near a stream, and has ordered him to restore the land back to its original state.

“EPA appears more interested in intimidating and bankrupting Mr. Johnson than it does in working cooperatively with him,” three US Senators wrote in a letter to the agency about Johnson’s case. A spokesman for Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) gave Off The Grid News a copy of the letter.

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