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Ongoing discharge
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Smithfield Foods, king of factory-farmed pork, also is king of manure, this 2006 story reports. Toxic pig waste is stored in huge lagoons, which leak and flood and leach into air, wells, and waterways. The company, with 16 operations in 12 states, was fined by the EPA for 6,900 violations of Clean Water Act in Virginia alone. It has since expanded into Poland and Romania.
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