In 2000, Iowa's attorney general declared DeCoster a "habitual violator" of state environmental laws after a series of discharges of manure from his hog-farming operations.
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In 2000 Iowa's Department of Natural Resources labeled DeCoster a "habitual violator" of environmental laws and banned him from expanding operations in the state for four years because of violations at hog farms he owned.