Just shut the damned thing down and be done with it.
Neener Neener
The King Can Do No Wrong
Take that, Peasants
First day! Please...
Fine, just adjust salary of the bastards that authorized this to $1.00 per day, and get some pittance of justice.
If some company or individual did this same thing the EPA would force them into bankruptcy and pick over the carcass.
We’ll do it another way.....shut down the EPA!!
Take the money from the EPAs budget
Sell off the EPA office buildings, desks, computers, chairs, vehicles and close down their expense accounts.
This is such crap....sovereign immunity only protects from LEGAL acts in good faith...it does NOT cover illegal acts or protect incompetence that covers harm to others.
Eliminate the ridiculous EPA.
The slave has become the master. ABOLISH the EPA!
What if Exxon had done this?
BTW - There is a credible story that this was not an accident.
convenient isn’t it...the govt has all this power and they still aren’t held to any responsibility.
they waived that by participating in the suit.
Congress can always sign a law redirecting their budget.
The fact they waited this long is the height of arrogance for an ADMINISTRATIVE agency.
I’m not so sure that ‘sovereign immunity’ thing carries any water in this instance. That immunity, so I’ve been told by an lawyer from the FBI, comes if certain criteria are met:
Did the agent have a lawful right to be there?
Did the agent have a lawful right to be doing what they were doing?
Was the agent negligent in the discharge of their duties?
If the answer isn’t....Yes - Yes - No...then it’s off to court for the agent. I’m quite sure that ‘agency’ can replace ‘agent’ at any time. Toss that in with the fact that the incident, at least to what I read, was somewhat intentional and I think the immunity thing goes out the window. Saddest part is, the taxpayer is left paying the bill, no matter how you slice it. I would have no issues with being among that taxpayer group if, the money was taken from the EPAs budget as it was being dismantled and gotten rid of...AND...if some people went to prison(for a long time) over the incident, specifically McCarthy.
The EPA, under the 0bama regime causes a toxic spill that pollutes an entire river basin, causing loss of wildlife, jobs, and revenue to businesses would be a felony to anyone else who did it...
Drain the swamp.
5.56mm
Can’t meaning won’t.
OK then.
Let’s charge the perpetrators in criminal court for criminal negligence.
Just to note: The final word is not with the EPA, as Congress has long specified a number of means for settling such torts against the Federal government.
The EPA is correct in that they generally have sovereign immunity, but they are being misleading if they claim Congress hasn’t waived most agency immunity in such cases.