Wisconsin Ag Connection - National/World News - Feedlot Penalized for Clean Water Act Violations
National & World Ag News Headlines Feedlot Penalized for Clean Water Act Violations USAgNet - 12/10/2020 A judge has ruled in favor of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fined Tony and Joshua Brown of Armstrong, Iowa, a $76,000 penalty for violating the federal Clean Water Act. The brothers, doing business as Riverview Cattle, discharged pollutants from their cattle feedlot on 41 days into the East Fork of the Des Moines River, according to the judge's ruling. "We are encouraged by Judge Coughlin's ruling," said David Cozad, director of EPA Region 7's Enforcement and Com...
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