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High Court To Hear Oakland Plant Case
The idle American Beef Packers Inc.. plant located in Oakland, pictured here in 1985, will be the subject of a lawsuit to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. American Beef Packers Inc. originally opened the plant in 1966.
Conditions Ripe For Beef Plant Reopening
Land O' Lakes Beef Plant
Oakland, Iowa
Oakland, Iowa
Harlan Pork Plant's Pollution Status Foggy
The Water Pollution Control Commission . . . of the Health Department found during an investigation that the plant lacks adequate facilities for treating waste. American Beef and the Health Department made an 'informal' agreement to correct the…
Harlan Pork Plant's Pollution Status Foggy
A Black Substance Probably Coming From The Lagoon . . . flows from a culvert into a ditch near the plant and into the Nishnabotna River one-half mile away. Harlan residents have complained about odor from the plant.
Harlan Pork Plant's Pollution Status Foggy
Western Iowa Pork Plant Near Harlan . . . owned by American Beef Packers, Inc., told the State Department of Health it would let contracts to improve its waste treatment facilities by Nov. 1, 1970. But nobody knows if it has done so and the president…