Neighbors in one Texas town say the air has turned his stomach turning thick.

And now the state is taking a local plant court.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Darling ingredients.

Darling.

They run a rendering facility in Bastrop,

accusing it of releasing noxious odors and air pollutants in violation of state permits and air quality laws.

Smell it.

Residents have compared to smell to dog food, burning feathers, boiling bloods, pollutants in violation of state permits and air quality laws. Smell it.

Residents have compared to smell to dog food, burning feathers, boiling blood, and death.

The state's petition says the stench has become a persistent nuisance that interferes with people's ability to use and enjoy their homes.

Lawsuit also accuses the plant of emitting hydrogen sulfide, a gas with that rotten egg scent.

They can irritate the eyes, nose, and throat, and a failing to meet requirements on equipment maintenance, pH levels, and record keeping.

Paxton is asking a judge to impose civil penalties and order fixes, including immediate odor control, real-time hydrogen sulfide monitoring,

and oversight by independent experts. Not a shutdown of the plant. Right. Just that.

Darling says it will respond in court and remains committed to being a good neighbor,

directing residents to a website, outlining its efforts. The suit involving Bastrop, 30 miles southeast of

Boston, is now a test case over what the law requires. The State Commission of Environmental

Quality Reports, it's received hundreds of complaints over the past three years. A city

councilwoman was pleased by the filing, but wishes the state had done more. It shouldn't be

on me a mom, and kind of just a regular person having to constantly file complaints or go to hearings or become educated on all these things. I just want people to do their job, and I want you guys to just stop polluting. Okay, well, two things here. And you're right, they should stop polluting, all right? One, it's Texas. So when it comes to oversight and independent, like, that's just not a thing unless they get caught on something, right? Notoriously. Also, understand this community that's bitching about it. This is a new community. It is. This is a fairly new community, and you chose to move next to a rendering plant. Now, I'm not saying what the rendering plan is doing is right but what I'm saying it's like you don't hear positive reviews of the air quality around a rendering plant I don't care where it is okay so it's like the people that move into a new house and C-Tac and then bitch that the planes are allowed it's like you move next to an airport I mean, so it's just one of those things where it's like, look,

the developer built the houses. Yes, he built it next to a rendering plant, but still, like, I just remember the process of buying a house. School districts, libraries, walkability, certainly if there's a rendering plan, it's something I would think about because I would completely assume that that's going to be one of my issues, right?

This is one of the things I have a problem with on golf courses,

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