Water policy clash at Kansas EPA hearing raises tensions
At a Dodge City EPA hearing Kansas farming groups and Sierra Club spar over who controls water policy. Proponents insist on local land stewardship while critics lament water quality, with speakers citing 81 percent pollution levels and Kansas ranking 43rd in streams meeting safety standards.
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Kansas Farm Bureau
Kansas Fertilizer and Chemical Association
Farmland Industries
U.S
Common Sense Water Policy
Allie Devine
Kansas Livestock Association
Kansas
Kansas Sierra Club
Charles Benjamin
EPA
Benjamin
Sier
Ra Club
George Bush
American Civil Liberties Union
Trish Rose
Sierra Club
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Rose
George Washington
Thomas Paine
James Madison
John Adams
Paine
Reading Olympians Inspire Local Students in Mini Celebration
Students at a local school celebrated Sarah Noriega's Olympic journey with a presentation by her high school coach Kendall Heinrichs and a training video. The event linked goal setting to reading. students will earn bronze, silver, and gold medals for reading goals. Clayton Noriega led the Olympic flag and pledged to stay up late for Sydney matches.
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Ation
Sarah Noriega
Noriega
Kendall Heinrichs
Sarah
Heinrichs
Norie
Pfingston
Clayton Noriega
Clayton
Sydney
Cattlemen seek class action in IBP lawsuit clash
The lawsuit contends a certified class is possible but faces rejection due to wide differences among cattle operations. Plaintiffs include ranchers from Nebraska Kansas South Dakota and Montana with IBP majorly in Dakota Dunes. Judge Albritton previously rejected the claim as not meeting class criteria. Strom later allowed a narrowed class for cattle sold for slaughter to IBP since February 1994.
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Douglas
Nebraska
Kansas
South Dakota
Montana
Dakota Dunes
S.D
IBP
U.S
W. Harold Albritton
Montgomery
Albritton
Strom
Alabama
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Demmitt Feed Yard Inc
Meade
Southwest
Robin Calderon
Culligan
Garden City
Carden City
Main
Uplerstore
Terake
Yvsas Health Foundation