September 25, 2019
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Resource Materials
Third Amended Complaint against Cow Palace (Yakima)
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September 12, 2019
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Order Denying Motion to Dismiss (Iowa PTD)
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September 12, 2019
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News
Court Will Hear Case Seeking Raccoon River Restoration and Factory Farm Moratorium
Late yesterday afternoon, Polk County District Court Judge Robert Hanson ordered that a lawsuit to restore the Racoon River, heavily polluted with agricultural runoff, may proceed over the objections of the State of Iowa and agencies implementing the voluntary Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy....
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July 29, 2019
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Resource Materials
Complaint (Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper v. Keystone Protein)
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May 30, 2019
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News
The Fern: JBS, under fire for taking Trump’s tariff bailout, is accused of polluting a Colorado river
In a new lawsuit, environmental advocates say a Colorado beef-packing plant owned by JBS has been dumping polluted wastewater into a river for years....
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May 29, 2019
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Cases
Blackwood v. N&M Dairy
N&M Dairy was a multi-thousand cow dairy that the dumped millions of gallons of waste produced annually in surrounding open fields and earthen lagoons. The government and N&M Dairy consultants themselves warned N&M that its actions were killing crops and poisoning groundwater. Toxic nitrates seeped...
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May 23, 2019
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News
Pollution Online: Lawsuit Seeks To Protect South Platte River From Colorado Slaughterhouse Pollution
The Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court recently against the JBS-Swift Beef Company to stop illegal discharges of slaughterhouse pollution into Colorado’s South Platte River....
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May 10, 2019
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Cases
Iowa Public Trust Doctrine (Iowa CCI & FWW v. State of Iowa)
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice), Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa claiming that the state has violated its obligation to protect the Raccoon River for the use and benefit of...
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May 15, 2015
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Cases
Yakima Valley Dairy Cases
In October 2012, the Center for Food Safety and the Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) warned four major Yakima Valley (Wash.) factory farms that they would take them to federal court unless the farms stopped contaminating local drinking water supplies with runoff...
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