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Company: Cobb-Vantress
Current Parent Company: Tyson Foods
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Penalty: $1,250,000
Year: 2003
Date: July 16, 2003
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Six poultry companies agreed to pay a total of $7.5 million to the City of Tulsa to resolve a lawsuit concerning water pollution. The announcement did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume the total was divided equally among them.
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Tulsa (OK) City Attorney
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: Oklahoma
Facility City: Tulsa
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Arkansas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: food products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: poultry processing and meatpacking
Source of Data: Arkansas poultry firms, Tulsa settle lawsuit over water, Associated Press, July 16, 2003 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.