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Tyson Foods settles chicken lawsuit
LOUISVILLE (AP)--Tyson Foods said it will spend up to $500,000 to monitor air for ammonia at two chicken farms it owns in Western Kentucky.
As part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club and three Western Kentucky residents, the poultry giant agreed Jan. 26 to plant buffers of trees at other locations, club members and Tyson officials said.
Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said there's nothing in the settlement that specifically requires any farm to reduce its ammonia emissions.
The farms are in Webster, McLean and Hopkins counties.
Aloma Dew, a local Sierra Club representative, said three plaintiffs in the case--Mary B. Edwards, Leesa Webster and Norma Caine, all of whom live near the large farms--will receive financial compensation. Those terms are to remain confidential, Dew said.
U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. is expected to sign the agreement this week, making it final, Dew said.
The 2002 lawsuit claimed that the farms were so large that they should be regulated under some of the same federal air-pollution laws adopted primarily to control emissions from factories, refineries and chemical plants.
Date: 2/24/05
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