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Smithfield Foods says it's now producing natural gas from hog waste at a plant in Bladen County, in eastern North Carolina. The $14 million project is a…
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The lagoons were supposed to be gone by now.Nearly 20 years ago, North Carolina faced a reckoning. Hurricane Floyd inundated the state, flooding the open…
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Smithfield Foods says it will cover most of its open hog waste lagoons over the next 10 years in North Carolina and other states to capture methane to be…
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The federal judge managing a series of North Carolina lawsuits accusing the world's largest pork company of creating nuisances for rural neighbors is…
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A federal jury decided Friday that the world's largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog…
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Duke Energy last week began generating electricity in eastern North Carolina with natural gas from a new source: hog waste. It helps Duke meet a state…
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The General Assembly has overridden the governor's veto of a bill that protects hog and poultry farmers in lawsuits over nuisance smells. The state Senate…
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A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was arrested early Friday morning for communicating a threat toward other officers while acting drunk and…
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that would limit the amount of damages nearby property owners can collect if a court rules that smells from hog and…
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Updated 4:25 p.m.The state Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to reduce the number of state appeals court judges, and gave preliminary final approval to a…