Six NC Hog Farms Get Notice Of Suit
The Humane Society of the United States is serving notice to 51 different hog facilities that it will sue over the amount of toxic air pollution they produce. Leoneda Inge: Six of the farms are in...
View ArticleHog Farm Fine Will Go To Protecting Land
The U.S. Attorney's Office is using a hog farm company's violation to send a message on protecting the environment. Gurnal Scott: The admission by Columbus County-based Freedman Farms to dumping hog...
View ArticleConnecting Hog Farms To Pipelines Could Streamline Methane Gas Energy
Researchers at Duke University say they have shed more light on the prospects of using hog waste to produce energy. A study released last week says capturing methane gas from hog farms and routing it...
View ArticleSmithfield Foods Goes 'Hog Wild' Over Shuanghui Merger
The multi-billion dollar merger announcement between Smithfield Foods and China-based Shuanghui International caught many people by surprise. Smithfield owns the largest hog processing plant in the...
View ArticleN.C. Hog Farm Neighbors File Nuisance Complaints
Hundreds of people in eastern North Carolina have filed nuisance complaints against Smithfield Foods about the way hog farmers dispose of their waste. A Wake County court received nearly 600 complaints...
View ArticleComplaint Filed With EPA Over Hog Waste Disposal
Several environmental groups have filed a federal complaint against the state over hog waste. In a filing with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the organizations say North Carolina has failed...
View ArticleWhat To Do With A Surplus Of Hog Waste In Eastern North Carolina
It’s been an environmental quandry for years: what to do hog waste in North Carolina. The state is home to nearly 9 million hogs, which produce massive amounts of waste. Some of it goes back onto the...
View ArticleEPA Will Investigate DENR Over Hog Lagoons
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching an investigation into the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The investigation will look at whether DENR was too lenient in...
View ArticleBiogas A Possible Victim Of Renewable Rollbacks
To a visitor, the hog houses down a dusty dirt road outside Magnolia, North Carolina look like any other hog houses. Here in Duplin County, there are low-slung buildings like this one around every...
View ArticleNew Maps Detail Scope Of NC's Poultry And Hog Industries
A coalition of environmental groups released a series of interactive maps documenting thousands of large-scale hog, cattle and poultry farms across North Carolina. The maps identify more than 4,000 hog...
View ArticleTwo NC Rivers Among Country's 'Most Endangered'
The national nonprofit American Rivers has named the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers among the country's most endangered.
View ArticleCooper Vetoes Bill That Shields Hog Farmers
Gov. Roy Cooper slammed down another veto Friday, his fourth of this legislative term. Cooper vetoed House Bill 467 , which would reduce the liability hog farmers face for the nuisance caused by...
View Article'Gunk' From Hog Farms, But Neighbors Left With Little Recourse
Hog country in eastern North Carolina can be beautiful and serene. Pastoral scenes with uncluttered horizons, neat farmhouses, corn fields swaying in the breeze, and livestock quietly grazing – the...
View ArticleHogs v. Humans: Neighbors Fight Back Against Swine Waste
Terry "Pap" Adams says he was out in the backyard, tinkering on one of his car projects, when another cloud of noxious pinkish-brown mist drifted overhead. The droplets hit his wife's black car,...
View ArticleHog Industry Lawyers: Jury Needn't Hear Other Waste Methods
Attorneys defending the hog industry against federal lawsuits that claim spraying liquefied animal waste over farm fields has harmed their North Carolina neighbors don't want jurors to hear about...
View ArticleHog Waste In NC Has Been A Relatively Untapped Fuel Source. Until Now.
North Carolina isn’t rich in coal, natural gas or oil deposits, but it has more hogs than nearly any other state. And for many years, people have been trying to figure out a way to turn hog waste into...
View ArticleWhat The $50M Hog Nuisance Decision Means For Future Lawsuits
A federal jury awarded more than $50 million in damages to 10 neighbors of a 15,000-head hog operation in Eastern North Carolina. The residents said the stench and noise from the hog farm made living...
View ArticleA Big Look At Big Hog In North Carolina
North Carolina’s pork industry has been in the spotlight since a jury awarded tens of millions to 10 people living close to one Eastern North Carolina hog farm. The money was awarded as nuisance...
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