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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.
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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.
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.
By voiding the license, issued last year by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals is sending it back to the agency for further review.