The Gazette

Agri Star sends 250K gallons of meat processing wastewater to Postville treatment plant, some enters creek

Red-tinted wastewater shows up March 5 in an aeration basin at the Postville wastewater treatment plant. A blocked sewer line at Agri Star caused a pump station to flood, sending untreated water from ...
In These Times

Meatpacking Plants Disproportionately Pollute Poor, Non-White Communities

POSTVILLE, Iowa — In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the ...
Grist

Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data shows

In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the water supply. Agri ...
AG Week

Stacyville Poultry Processing plant a model for giving power to the producer

STACYVILLE, Iowa — Farm Service Agency leaders toured a plant designed to be the model for independent poulty processing plants nationwide, as they looked for solutions in the wake of Tyson Foods ...