Posted for Emma Marris

Heather Wylie, the US Army Corps of Engineers scientist who paddled her way down the Los Angeles river in this post won’t pay for her “off-duty kayaking”.

Wylie was trying to prove, with a group of others, that the river was navigable, and thus subject to the Clean Water Act. Her employers at the Corps had previously declared it not navigable, and were displeased when she so publicly disagreed.

Now the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who took up her case, is announcing that Wylie’s case has been settled; she will not face a 30-day suspension and has decided to leave the Corps and go to law school to become an environmental lawyer.