Lower Umatilla Basin defendants look to quash nitrate pollution lawsuit

Attorneys for the local agriculture industry say the issue shouldn’t be resolved in federal court.

A lawsuit has put the Lower Umatilla Basin’s largest agricultural players in the position of defending Oregon’s regulators.

Four months after a group of basin residents filed a lawsuit alleging that five members of the local agricultural industry were polluting their groundwater with nitrates, the defendants have broken their silence and asked the court to toss the legal action.

Source: Lower Umatilla Basin defendants look to quash nitrate pollution lawsuit – OPB