IRONY!

Who do you call when the Environmental Protection Agency is an Environmental hazard?

A government agency’s watchdog says a storage warehouse rented by the Environmental Protection Agency in suburban Washington for $750,000 was tainted with rodent feces, mold and other problems.

The EPA inspector general’s report released Monday also found that contract workers charged with protecting the warehouse and its contents were using government-owned exercise equipment and watching television in “hidden personal spaces” outside the range of security cameras.

The IG said that “deplorable conditions” at the 70,000-square-foot warehouse in Landover, Md., raised concerns about the EPA’s lack of oversight of storage space. No one at EPA had visited the facility, and some contents — such as employee passports — could have been stolen.

“Tainted” could mean a lot of things…but given that the EPA seems to have little concern or oversight over property in their control, it could be anything from “minor” to “Put on your respirators and poopy-suits boys!”

And nice to know the contractors were exercising and lounging in potentially hazardous conditions. Of course if any of these workers gets so much as a chest cold, guess who they’ll sue, and guess who will pay for that!