Call it what you want….manure, poop, waste, chicken litter or even something we won’t say in this story.
But it’s still the focus of a decades-long fight that former attorney General Drew Edmondson started years ago with the poultry industry over the pollution of the state’s Illinois River. Since then, six attorneys general, two of them ‘acting’ have held office while the fight was in court—Scott Pruitt, Cara Rodriguez (acting), Michael Hulnter, Dawn Cash (acting), John O’Connor and now Gentner Drummond.
Drummond has indicated he wants details layed out that will keep poultry producers from using the chicken litter as fertilizer on their fields, a practice that led to pollution of the Illinois River watersheld. The topic was recently explored by The Oklahoman and ArtDesk, published by the Kirkpatrick Foundation.
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