June 4, 2019
“The complaint filed earlier today by some Boca Raton trial attorneys is
currently under review.
We are American farmers and stand behind the safety and integrity of our
farming practices, which are highly regulated and legally permitted on a daily
basis by the government. Our farming practices are safe, environmentally
sound, highly regulated and closely monitored. Beyond that, we live in these
Glades communities and raise our families here – our children and
grandchildren – in the neighborhoods, schools and churches throughout
these small, close-knit farming towns.
Fortunately, decades of independent air quality monitoring and data show
that our communities, along with our counties of Palm Beach, Hendry and
Glades, have some of the best air quality in the entire state, better than the
state average, year after year.
Lastly, while seeming to be done on behalf of our communities, this lawsuit
actually attacks the very farming that supports all the jobs in our
communities.
The health, safety and jobs of our communities all are vitally important to
U.S. Sugar.”
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