Drummond acts to defend Illinois River Watershed settlements

Attorney General Gentner Drummond called on a federal court to quickly accept the hard-fought settlements totaling more than $31 million to clean up poultry litter pollution in the Illinois River Watershed. Every day without a ruling, he warned, risks unraveling agreements that took months of goodfaith negotiations to reach.

The proposed settlements with Cargill, George’s, Peterson Farms and Tyson …