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EPA tries to destroy Wyoming man, but he bravely fights back
Andy Johnson is a welder and a hard-working man in rural Wyoming near tiny Fort Bridger (population 345). He never thought he would be making headlines across the country. But then the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcers came onto his private property.
The EPA threatened to fine him $75,000 a day unless he restored a “wetland” he altered, allegedly without a permit. Andy Johnson owns eight acres in Uinta County in southwestern Wyoming on which he runs horses and watches his three daughters play. In fact, the stock pond he built, filled with crystal-clear water, and used to create a habitat for brook and brown trout, ducks and geese, was permitted by the Wyoming State Engineer's Office.
Wyoming's Republican senators demanded the EPA withdraw the compliance order, which they labeled "a draconian edict of a heavy-handed bureaucracy" that puts "each and every landowner throughout the country" in fear. For his part, Mr. Johnson did not back down. "I have not paid them a dime, nor will I. If you need to stand up and fight, you do it."
William Perry Pendley--a seasoned Supreme Court lawyer who heads Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), a team of nonprofit lawyers—telephoned Andy Johnson. Pendley promised Andy that MSLF would defend him for free against the EPA and the biggest law firm in the world—the U.S. Department of Justice.
But MSLF is a small, nonprofit group. It needs your support. Help Andy Johnson and his family tell the EPA to leave working people and their private property alone.
Read more about this case over at The New York Times.
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