Okay, is it just me, or is the idea of "unpermitted discharge" coupled with the tea baggers just too damn much? I'm sure they're convinced that IDEM is chock full o'ACORN.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — State officials are questioning plans by tax activists to dump a crate of tea bags into the Wabash River in protest of excessive government spending.
A spokeswoman for the state's environmental agency said that throwing tea into the Wabash, or any river, could hurt aquatic life by depleting the water of oxygen.
"It would technically be considered an unpermitted discharge," said Amber Finkelstein, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
She said putting tea in the river would also be a fineable offense, and that IDEM would not be able to permit the protest because the river does not meet minimum water quality standards.
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