WAYNESBURG, Pa.—The attorney for a southwestern Pennsylvania man whose company dumped millions of gallons of drilling and other wastewater into streams and mine shafts says a state prosecutor disrespected the judge for objecting to a probation sentence.

Christopher Blackwell, the attorney for 50-year-old Robert Allan Shipman, says the probation sentence was proper under state guidelines. Blackwell also says Deputy Attorney General Amy Carnicella's motion to have a Greene County judge impose a prison sentence instead of seven years' probation ignores the other penalties Shipman endured.

Shipman must perform 1,750 hours of community service, pay $257,000 in restitution plus a fine of $100,000. The attorney says Shipman agreed to not only get rid of Allan's Waste Water Service, which did the illegal dumping, he also got divested a legitimate water treatment business that operated legally.