Oklahoma's loophole: How Tyson’s water use goes unchecked - Investigate Midwest

Oklahoma's loophole: How Tyson’s water use goes unchecked - Investigate Midwest

As Jill Trapp steered her pickup truck down the red dirt roads of southeast Oklahoma, she raised a hand to greet a passing neighbor — a calf roper who once made it to the National Finals Rodeo.  She drove on, passing a modest cowboy church where Sunday sermons share space with country music and the smell of brisket.  Then, rising among the cedar and elm trees, came a familiar and unwelcome sight: a row of long, gray, windowless chicken houses, e…