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SUNDAY: Oklahoma group fights Arkansas sewage plant
Tahlequah :: OK :: USA | 1 day ago
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An Oklahoma environmental group has filed a petition to stop a new northwest Arkansas sewage plant that it believes will violate the federal Clean Water Act. Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority’s regional waste water treatment plant serving Bentonville...
Tags: Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority, Oklahoma, sewage plant, Illinois River, arkansas sewage, Tahlequah, Environment, Tulsa Oklahoma, Osage Nation, States of the United States, Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Area, Arkansas, Washington County Arkansas
Atty: Non-poultry sources could have tainted water
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility A scientist testified that runoff from fields spread with poultry manure accounted for a major portion of phosphorus pollution in a sensitive northeastern Oklahoma watershed. But an attorney for 11 Arkansas poultry companies who do business there argued...
Tags: Roger Olsen, Oklahoma, geochemist roger, poultry companies, Tulsa, Manure, Cargill, Illinois River, Industrial agriculture, Meatpacking, Tyson Foods, Environment, Pollution, Environmental engineering, Environmental science, Poultry litter, By-product, Water pollution, Aquatic ecology, Poultry farming
Birds, pilots grounded near Rockford on migration flight
Jasper :: IN :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility Nineteen whooping crane chicks and a team of ultralight pilots remain grounded by headwinds in Winnebago County near Rockford on their 1,200-mile migration flight to Florida. The flight has been grounded since Nov. 5 and unable to make the next leg of...
Tags: Wisconsin, migrating flights, Jasper, Kankakee County Illinois, Hunting, Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, Environment, Illinois River, Kankakee River, Momence Illinois
Poultry trial expert: Recreation on Oklahoma's Illinois River has declined
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility With Tuesday's testimony from Oklahoma State University professor Lowell Caneday (CAN'-uh-day), the state of Oklahoma hoped to suggest that decades of chicken manure pollution has made one of the state's top recreational areas less attractive to the public.
First witness says poultry litter issue nothing new
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Tolbert was the first witness called by the state to testify in the federal trial in Tulsa. The state sued 11 poultry companies in 2005, claiming that they are legally responsible for the handling and disposal of poultry waste — or litter — that the state...
Tags: Oklahoma-Arkansas, Illinois River, river watershed, poultry companies
Oklahoma opens case in poultry lawsuit
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility 36 PM Last Modified: 9/24/2009 12:42 PM The state of Oklahoma opened its case in a pollution lawsuit against the poultry industry Thursday with Attorney General Drew Edmondson painting a bleak picture of the Illinois River watershed.
Tags: Oklahoma, poultry industry, river watershed, Illinois River, Arkansas, arkansas poultry, Drew Edmondson, Tulsa
Poultry litter trial on way
Cherokee :: OK :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The state's attorney general, who filed the suit, is expected to make the state's opening argument. Published: 9/21/2009 2:23 AM Last Modified: 9/21/2009 2:30 AM More than four years after he declared that "chicken is the problem," Oklahoma Attorney...
Tags: attorney general, Illinois River, Cherokee
Bid to stop litter use blocked
Denver :: CO :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility He is suing several poultry companies over their alleged polluting of the Illinois River watershed through the spreading of poultry waste on farmland in the area. Oklahoma officials lost a preliminary bid Wednesday to limit the spreading of poultry wastes...
Tags: Illinois River, river watershed
River pact called critical to runoff woes
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility With only a fraction of 9,000 acres sought for a 2007 program in Oklahoma now under contract, officials say a new agreement between a federal agency and Arkansas will be critical to addressing the problems of runoff in the Illinois River watershed...Department...
Tags: Illinois River
Peoria Journal Star, Illinois: Flood warning continues for the Illinois River
Peoria :: IL :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Illinois river at Henry affecting marshal and Putnam counties Illinois river near Peoria affecting Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties, at Havana affecting Fulton and Mason counties, at Beardstown affecting Brown, Cass, Morgan and Schuyler counties.
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