Industrial Animal Agriculture
N.C.’s Poultry Waste Threat Growing by 18.16 Million birds Since Florence
- By: Ellen Simon
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s unregulated poultry industry added enough barns in the year since Hurricane Florence to house at least 18.165 million more birds at...
Ten Lessons from the Fair Farms Initiative
- By: Waterkeepers Chesapeake
- News
By Betsy Nicholas, Executive Director of Waterkeepers Chesapeake As an environmental lawyer, I was trained to see regulators and courts as the sole path...
Hog and Phony Show
- By: Lumber Riverkeeper
- News
By Jefferson Currie II, Lumber Riverkeeper, Winyah Rivers Alliance North Carolina’s Farm Bureau recently led tours of factory swine operations for both...
N.C. Takes Step to Remove “Swamp Waters” Classification from Lower Cape Fear River
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s Environmental Management Commission today granted a petition from environmental groups to remove the “swamp waters” classification...
Tell N.C. to Take Action on Environmental Justice
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Everyone should be able to cultivate a garden, open her windows, or join a church picnic on a sunny day. For the neighbors of North Carolina’s industrial...
Groups Launch Legal Action to Protect Waterways from Slaughterhouse Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Conservation groups today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to update slaughterhouse wastewater...
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Decision to Exempt Factory Farms From Reporting Hazardous Air Pollution
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Community and conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for overstepping its authority in exempting factory farms from pollution-reporting...
Community, Environmental Groups File Constitutional Challenge to Laws Limiting Individual Property Rights
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental and community groups today filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against industrial hog operations,...
Hog Operations Can Follow N.C. Laws and Still Be Liable for Nuisance
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Following North Carolina’s minimal laws governing the disposal of hog waste generated from the state’s factory meat operations does not insulate a...
North Carolina Riverkeepers Respond to Swine Waste Management General Permit
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality released the state’s Swine Waste Management General Permit today, which governs disposal of the...
North Carolina Waterkeepers Mobilize Communities Against Hog Waste
- By: Will Hendrick
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
How can a state manage 9.5 billion gallons of hog waste each year? That’s the question North Carolina has been grappling with for more than 20 years....
The Green New Deal: What Does it Mean for Water?
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
By Marc Yaggi and Gabrielle Segal With 2018 being the fourth-hottest year on record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years on record having occurred since 2001,...
With Groundbreaking Title VI Settlement Signed, North Carolina Environmental Justice Organizations Vow to Continue Their Fight
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
North Carolina environmental justice groups announced today that they reached a settlement agreement with the North Carolina Department of Environmental...
Tell Congress: No free pass for CAFOs | Dive Into Democracy
- By: Larissa Liebmann
- News
Today, the vast majority of our meat comes from enormous “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” (CAFOs), which often raise thousands of animals in...
Environmental Groups Reach Settlement with State Regarding Response to Citizen Complaints
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Yesterday, Waterkeeper Alliance, Cape Fear River Watch and the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), represented by Elizabeth Haddix and...
Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers Launch “The True Cost of Industrial Meat Production” Environmental Justice Video Campaign
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Series captures environmental injustices perpetrated by the pork industry against North Carolina’s most vulnerable populations NEW YORK, NY — Waterkeeper...