In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these ...

A North Carolina farm with a troubled history is once again being accused of polluting nearby waterways. The most recent round of North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality inspections in ...

At the heart of the environmental debate is a proposal to increase renewable energy credits (RECs) for facilities that convert hog waste into biogas, particularly in economically distressed Tier 1 ...

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for ...