New research shows North Carolina factory farm pollution can be seen from space and details its disproportionate impact on ...

The negative effects on air quality from industrialized animal facilities in North Carolina stick around for a long time, according to a new study that also showed the effects are felt most by ...

For many years, hog farming was North Carolina’s best-known industrial-scale agricultural sector. The state imposed a moratorium on new swine farms in 1997 following concerns about the ...

2013: After people living near industrial-scale hog farms in eastern North Carolina filed lawsuits against pork-producer Murphy-Brown, members of the General Assembly expanded protections for all ...

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution ... amounts of animal manure — in North Carolina. Across the eastern part ...

A Chubb unit embroiled in a lawsuit with Smithfield Foods Inc. is pushing to depose the company’s chief legal officer, ...

The Trom’s family story, along with the story of how factory farms have reshaped US agriculture, are recounted in Trom ...

President Donald Trump has significantly reduced staffing within a civil rights office of the U.S. Environmental Protection ...