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EPA nominee had little to do with ‘busload of lawyers’ case

By Dan Flynn on January 19, 2017

Oklahoma’s famous “busload of lawyers” case is back in the news because of president-elect Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Pruitt is Oklahoma’s Attorney General. Environmental…
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Quick Ruling Expected in Maryland Chicken Manure Trial

By News Desk on October 22, 2012

A fast-moving, but emotional civil trial pitting environmentalists against family farmers could end in the next day or two with a ruling by U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson in Baltimore. At issue is whether…
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Rice Growers Sue Chicken Industry Over Poultry Litter

By Dan Flynn on October 12, 2012

Arkansas rice growers say chicken industry practices promoted by industry giants like Pfizer, Tyson Foods Inc. and other big chicken producers are responsible for the high arsenic levels being detected in their crops. The growers…
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Maryland Chicken Case Goes to Trial Smaller Than When It Started

By Dan Flynn on October 10, 2012

It’s been more than two years since a federal bench trial in Oklahoma over chicken industry practices ended, but that judge has yet to issue a ruling. Now a three-week bench trial is underway in…
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OK's Evidence Against Poultry Litter Improves

By Dan Flynn on February 23, 2011

What happens if evidence, sitting in a drawer, changes before a judge has time to write a decision?

Just that may have happened in the ongoing saga of Oklahoma’s lawsuit against the largely Arkansas-based poultry

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OK’s Campaign Against Poultry Litter May Be Over

By Dan Flynn on November 26, 2010

Oklahoma’s newly elected leadership, Republicans Governor-elect Mary Fallin and Attorney General-elect Scott Pruitt, say they have the future of the state’s litigation against the poultry industry over its pollution of public waters under formal review.

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Farmers Clean Up in Maryland Assembly

By Dan Flynn on May 12, 2010

Nutrient trading, a market-based approach for protecting and improving water quality, is going into effect in Maryland.   The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will run the nutrient credit-trading program.

Goal of the Nutrient Trading Program

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Poultry Litter Trial Over: No Decision Yet

By Dan Flynn on February 22, 2010

Lawyers making closing arguments waited a week for an ill U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to return to the bench, but the chicken waste trial did come to an end last week.

With no

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Poultry Litter Limits Offered by OK

By Dan Flynn on February 8, 2010

In documents filed ahead of this week’s closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of 65 pounds of poultry litter per

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EPA Says it Will Clean Up Illinois River

By Dan Flynn on January 17, 2010

A “scientifically robust model of the Illinois River watershed” will be built in the next year and half by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the purpose of establishing “maximum daily loads” of pollutants

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Debate Over Poultry Litter Alternatives

By Dan Flynn on January 10, 2010

Phosphorus-loading rivers and lakes is the down side to using poultry litter as a cheap form of fertilizer.

But nitrogen in chicken manure means it releases nitrogen oxide when burned to make electricity.

Current research

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