
Cargill Inc. will pay $100,000 as part of a court agreement in a case involving environmental violations at its Iowa Falls, Iowa biodiesel plant. Attorney General Tom Miller said Cargill committed serious violations, including overloading the local sewage-treatment plant and illegally spreading wastes on land, but now is in compliance. The agreement was outlined in an order entered this week by Hardin County District Court Judge Carl. D. Baker. Miller filed a lawsuit just before the pact was revealed. In addition to paying the $100,000 fine, Cargill agreed to prevent any violations at its plants in Iowa Falls, Sioux City, Des Moines, and Cedar Rapids. The agreement did not resolve a separate lawsuit against Morts Inc. of Latimer, which was involved in improper land-application of organic wastes from the plant. Morts was hired to dispose of the waste after the Iowa Falls treatment plant stopped accepting the organic wastes in June 2006 because it was damaging the sewage-treatment process. The firm had paid tens of thousands of dollars to the Des Moines sewage plant, Which took truckloads of waste from the biodiesel plant in recent months.
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