Hurricane Helene inflicted huge losses on North Carolina farms. As many farmers wait for aid to flow, some wonder whether ...

State Division of Water Resources officials say more than 80,000 gallons of hog waste spilled into tributaries of the Northeast Cape Fear River over the weekend.

DEQ says equipment malfunctioned that was pumping waste between lagoons at the Murphy-Brown farm on Kenan Loop Road outside ...

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Water Resources has announced an animal waste spill that ...

The negative effects on air quality from industrialized animal facilities in North Carolina stick around for a long time, ...

In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used to impress me. In the early 2000s, he did excellent work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms that were fouling creeks and rivers, and we talked about ...

In the early 2000s, he did excellent work as an environmental lawyer taking on industrial hog farms that were ... a visit together to North Carolina to document the pollution.

Two environmental groups and a pecan-farming company filed an appeal with state regulators asking them to revoke the air pollution permit issued Jan. 2 for the proposed Copper World mine south of ...