concentrated animal feeding operations

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

Anaerobic digester loans showed “significant delinquency rates,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, while environmental groups see the technology driving an expansion of large-scale animal farming operations.

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

By Georgina Gustin

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

By Lisa Sorg

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

By Blanca Begert

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going.

By Anika Jane Beamer, Nina B. Elkadi

N.C. Supreme Court Says State Regulators Erred on CAFO Permits

By Lisa Sorg

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

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

By Lisa Sorg

Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains

By Lisa Sorg

N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits

By Lisa Sorg

Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills

By Lisa Sorg