EPA Workers 'Told To Stop Pooping In the Hallways'

They’re adults. They had to be told this? It wasn’t part of their upbringing? I know that most EPA workers are urban liberals, but were they raised in barns?

Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.

In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an individual placing feces in the hallway” outside the restroom.

Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and the individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions.

EPA management had to get a second opinion…on whether defecating in the hallways is a problem. They couldn’t figure this out without enlisting a consultant. Who confirmed, yep, pooping in the hallways is a problem.

But hey, at least they comply with congressional oversight better than the IRS. Wait…

While most of President Obama’s Cabinet was touting the anniversary of President Obama’s landmark speech in which he laid out plans to address climate change, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy was left facing a contempt threat from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.

Issa issued a subpoena in November for documents and communications between the Environmental Protection Agency and the Executive Office of the President over a five-year period as part of an inquiry into whether the White House interfered with how the agency responded to congressional inquiries.

That request has gone unfulfilled, said Issa, who says he’s planning to convene a committee business meeting after next week’s recess and hold the agency in contempt if the documents are not turned over or executive privilege exerted.

The hearing also included a bit of deja vu for the committee when members grilled McCarthy on lost emails from a hard-drive crash (the same issue that wiped out emails from IRS employee Lois Lerner). In this case, the emails in question were from retired EPA employee Philip North, who was involved in the agency’s decision to begin the process of preemptively vetoing the Pebble Mine project in Alaska.

North, who declined an interview request by the committee, is retired, and committee staff say they have been unable to track him down. According to a committee aide, North’s hard drive crashed in 2010–which was around the same time that the committee is investigating the agency’s discussions of a potential veto–and the emails were not backed up.

Well. All this will finally get liberals to see that the Obama government is just a lawless mass. Wait…

Does this give credence to IRS’ insistence that IT crashes not political coverups were the email problem? http://t.co/3QQ6brC14W

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) June 25, 2014

No, Sam. It doesn’t.