A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, are asking a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed.

Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. and the others say in a motion filed Thursday that evidence in the case is now more than 13 years old.

“This case is constitutionally moot because the Court can no longer grant any effectual relief,” the companies argued in a filing with U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell in Tulsa.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    27·
    1 year ago

    The filing said Oklahoma conservation officials have noted a steady decline in pollution. It credited improved wastewater treatment plants…

    Who paid for those treatment plants? The taxpayers, I assume. Shut the fuck up and pay them back.

    Frizzell had ordered the poultry companies and the state to reach an agreement on how to remedy the effects of the pollution.

    Attorneys for the companies and the state attorney general each said in Thursday filings that mediation had failed.

    I don’t see a state attorney general just giving up in this type of situation. So, the companies were so stubborn that they walked out of mediation, thereby violating a court order? And now they want to be rewarded with a dismissal? They can blow me.

    • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I don’t see a state attorney general just giving up in this type of situation.

      I see a campaign contribution in his future