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Iowa slaughterhouse faces water pollution lawsuit

Mar 17, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : In December 2024, three non-profit organizations filed an intent to sue Agri Star for illegally discharging animal waste products into public waterways.
54% : Larew emphasizes that they are simply using public information and public laws to hold polluters accountable.
53% : The intent to sue notice was co-authored by Driftless Water Defenders, a non-profit Iowa-based group working to protect Iowa waterways from agricultural polluters, as well as Public Justice and FarmSTAND, both non-profit legal advocacy groups.
49% : " The Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency have recently come under scrutiny for not enforcing these discharge permits strongly enough.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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