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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Bacteria from the waste of more than 140 million chickens raised each year in the Illinois River watershed has polluted the land and poses a serious health threat, Oklahoma's attorney general told a federal judge.
"Have we indeed poisoned the river?" Drew Edmondson asked U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell. "The EPA says yes."
The closing remarks Wednesday followed eight days of testimony spanning three weeks in the preliminary injunction case, in which Oklahoma is seeking to prevent 13 Arkansas poultry companies from disposing bird waste in the river valley.
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