8-17 news: Judge rules poultry litter is solid waste
"Today's ruling is important in that it demonstrates that the defendants can be held responsible for the over-application runoff and leaching that endangers human health and the environment," Charlie Price, a spokesman for Attorney General Drew Edmondson, said in an e-mail to the Tulsa World.
The poultry companies also lost a bid to revoke a settlement between the state and Willow Brook Foods Inc., which had been in the original lawsuit but paid $120,000 to settle claims made by the state. The other companies objected to the settlement when it was announced in May.