Okla. AG seeks halt to poultry waste disposal in watershed

 
By The Associated Press
Published: February 29, 2008

COLCORD, Okla. - In a region that produces billions of pounds of the nation's poultry, part of doing business for the past half-century was trying to ignore the smelly waste dropped by the birds.

Now, the chickens have come to roost, as Oklahoma wants a federal judge to stop 13 Arkansas -based poultry companies from dropping any more chicken litter in a once-pristine watershed.

The preliminary injunction re...


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