Then there’s the Wyoming family that the Environmental Protection Agency threatened to fine more than $187,000 a day because it wanted to build a pond on their property in 2013.
So Andy Johnson of Fort Bridger, Wyoming decided to fight and now he’s won. Republican U.S. Sen. John Barrasso announced the Johnsons will be able to keep their stock pond and won’t be fined after reaching a settlement with the EPA.
“They just want to do the right thing and be left in peace. Instead, under the Obama administration, people like Andy Johnson have to spend more and more time and money battling out-of-control Washington agencies like the EPA,” said Barrasso. “It shouldn’t have come to this. Local land-use decisions should never be driven by Washington, and the EPA should never be able to fine someone millions of dollars for building a pond on their own land.”
He called it an agency “that has gone too far.”
