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Environmental groups filed a legal challenge Friday against a water pollution permit issued to Valley Proteins, an Eastern Shore poultry rendering facility.

Environmental groups filed a legal challenge Friday against a water pollution permit issued to Valley Proteins, an Eastern Shore poultry rendering facility.

Maryland state regulators have approved expansion of a controversial poultry rendering plant on the Eastern Shore that just four months ago settled lawsuits accusing it of polluting a Chesapeake Bay

Several environmental groups are concerned about a new five-year permit that the state issued to Valley Proteins, a Dorchester County industrial facility with a history of environmental violations.

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Three local environmental groups say they plan to sue the owner of the Linkwood, Maryland, rendering facility over waste it discharges into the Transquaking River, a Chesapeake Bay tributary. The Dorchester County facility, owned by Winchester, Va.-based Valley Proteins, takes byproducts of the chicken industry — blood, feathers, heads and other body parts — and processes them into protein for animal food. Over the last five years, the facility has been cited for numerous "significant" ...

Environmental groups are asking that Valley Proteins, a Dorchester County plant that boils down chicken feathers, bones and fats to be used in animal feed and biofuels, be required to address pollution problems, and possibly pay a fine of more than $500 million for not complying with the law.