North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy to the point regulators don’t even know where most of the farms are located. Neighbors complain about the stench ...

In 2007, North Carolina became the only state in the country to require utilities to purchase electricity generated from poultry and swine waste. Utilities haven’t yet met those original targets.

In a typical poultry processing facility, much of the waste is simply dumped in a landfill or incinerated. Two experimental new processes, however, make use of the feathers, blood and bones – plus one ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thirty years ago, North Carolina gained the dubious distinction of having the largest ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond is addressing inaccuracies surrounding the ongoing litigation to protect water quality in ...

(Stephen Ausmus/Agricultural Research Service, USDA) The only way to significantly reduce phosphorus levels in Oklahoma’s eastern waterways is to ban the use of chicken litter as fertilizer, a soil ...

DENVER—A federal appeals court has rejected Oklahoma’s bid to stop poultry growers in Oklahoma and Arkansas from spreading poultry waste in the Illinois River watershed while an environmental lawsuit ...

EVANSVILLE – Republic Services wants to bring more chicken waste to its Vanderburgh County landfill – and the residents who live nearby aren’t happy. Republic, Evansville’s contractor for trash and ...