In his ruling, Judge Earl J. Witthoff said IBP is entitled to a temporary injunction against enforcement of the TRS standards until the merits of the case can be decided. Witthoff said the NDEQ had exempted livestock or agriculture production from the standards unless adjacent to a processing plant, allowed municipal wastewater treatment plants to implement programs to meet the standards rather than penalize them for non-compliance and made the standards lower based on complaints from Dakota County residents. It's a health-based standard. Modlin has been a leader of the Dakota County-based grassroots group Citizen, which worked for years to get the air standards. From what I understand, it isn't enforceable at all.
Any company can break it all it wants.
It could be years in the court system. It isn't to IBP's benefit to get it through the courts. We're back to where we were, only worse, actually. Needless to say I cried when I heard the order. It claimed the air quality standard was actually keeping the company from making improvements at its Dakota City plant and tannery that would include covered wastewater lagoons and air scrubbers.