Kansas pork producer violates rules; endangering us all

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Opinion

January 2, 2020 - 9:58 AM

There’s a reason that we have a nonpartisan, independent judiciary system in Kansas. And a recent decision by a Shawnee County judge over the Kansas Department of Health and Environment improperly issuing permits for hog farming proves the point.

In essence, hog producers thought they might have found a loophole in state water protection laws. The KDHE under former Gov. Sam Brownback seemed to accept the move.

As The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Tim Carpenter wrote: “The central issue in a lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club of Kansas was whether KDHE enabled prominent…

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