Millions of gallons of sludge was released from a packing plant and county commissioners say they learned about it watching NTV News.JBS SENDS "SLUDGE BLANKET"
The New York share listing of Brazilian meat company JBS SA would expose investors to risk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should closely scrutinize the company's criminal and environmental track record, a bipartisan group of senators said in a letter to the agency on Thursday. JBS, the world's largest meat packer, in July revived a decade-plus-long effort to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in hopes of accessing cheaper capital and more investors. In 2020, the SEC fined JBS $27 million to resolve other bribery charges related to its 2009 acquisition of Pilgrim's Pride, another top U.S. meat company.
Millions of gallons of sludge flowed from a packing plant into area waterways and state regulators say JBS needs to address impacts downstream.Fish are dead aft