North Carolina
Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.
North Carolina
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.
Mental Health
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Texas redistricting
El Paso Representative Joe Moody staying in Austin; New NC law makes regulating polluters much more difficult