TAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Nation is hailing an April 2 Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that the Legislature may pass bills creating state-tribal agreements for tobacco and motor vehicle registration compacts,
In a controversial turn of events, a House Bill shielding poultry companies from some liability over pollution passed through a Senate committee Monday morning.
House Bill 4118 takes the burden of keeping chicken feces and other pollutants out of rivers, lakes, and streams off of private commercial industries and splits the responsibility between them and the State of Oklahoma.
On Monday, the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee passed House Bill 4118. The bill eases what some in the poultry industry call tough regulations that are hurting small family chicken farms.