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 ...

North Carolina's 2,000 hog farms pump waste into storage lagoons. Overflow is sprayed onto fields as fertilizer, but sometimes, according to residents, the sprayers miss their marks, hitting homes ...

Currently, the second of 26 nuisance lawsuits filed by 500 Eastern North Carolina residents against hog farm Murphy-Brown LLC, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods and owner of most of ...

If hog farms were wrecking the environment in eastern North Carolina, a local river would be more polluted. That was the logic behind a recent statement by Steve Troxler, the state’s agriculture ...

And it’s a cost largely tied to excrement. Each year, North Carolina’s swine produce almost 10 billion gallons of feces and urine—enough to fill 15,000 Olympic-size swimming pools with fecal ...

At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new confinement hog farms were set up to take advantage of eastern North Carolina’s low employment levels. As a result, ...

This story was originally published by North Carolina Health News. Last August, during a routine surveillance flyover, Samantha Krop spotted something odd at White Oak Farm, a Wayne County biogas and ...

North Carolina's 2,000 hog farms pump waste into storage lagoons. Overflow is sprayed onto fields as fertilizer, but sometimes, according to residents, the sprayers miss their marks, hitting homes ...