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California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

Last year, six farms were the first in the Tar Heel State to get funding from California's program offsetting its transportation emissions. Their permits to make biogas already have civil rights complaints against them for the pollution from the process.

By Blanca Begert

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette
Farmer Ryan Rogers checks on a truck which has dumped food waste into a pit that feeds an anaerobic digester at Homestead Dairy in Plymouth, Indiana on July 13, 2015. The family-run farm invested in a biogas recovery system which transforms cow manure and other waste into enough electricity to power 1,000 homes. Credit: Mira Oberman /AFP via Getty Images

Are Incentives for Fuel Made from Livestock Manure Leaving Small Farmers Behind?

By Blanca Begert

A hog farm in eastern North Carolina. Credit: Rick Dove

Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas

By Lisa Sorg

Dairy cows gather at a farm in Visalia, Calif. on July 5, 2022. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

By Phil McKenna

A San Joaquin Valley dairy farm is viewed from above on April 13, 2023, in Visalia, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A concentrated animal feeding operation in North Carolina. Credit: Aman Azhar

North Carolina’s Bet on Biomass Energy Is Faltering, With Energy Targets Unmet and Concerns About Environmental Justice

By Aman Azhar

A concentrated animal feeding operation in North Carolina. Credit: Aman Azhar

EPA to Probe Whether North Carolina’s Permitting of Biogas From Swine Feeding Operations Violates Civil Rights of Nearby Neighborhoods

By Aman Azhar

Pigs stand in a pen at a farm in Ayden, North Carolina on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Credit: Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Civil Rights Groups in North Carolina Say ‘Biogas’ From Hog Waste Will Harm Communities of Color

By Aman Azhar

A damaged hog farm stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cypress Creek, North Carolina, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images

North Carolina’s New Farm Bill Speeds the Way for Smithfield’s Massive Biogas Plan for Hog Farms

By Aman Azhar

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Hogs are raised on July 25, 2018 near Osage, Iowa. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have set out to capture the methane emitted from giant hog manure “lagoons,” convert it into biogas and inject that biogas into pipelines to heat homes and buildings.

As the Livestock Industry Touts Manure-to-Energy Projects, Environmentalists Cry ‘Greenwashing’

By Georgina Gustin

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