Source: Ned Barnett, NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/1/18


In 1996 The News & Observer won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service by exposing how state lawmakers coddled the hog farm industry even as hog waste degraded the environment and assaulted neighbors with an unremitting stench.
Twenty-two years later some progress has been made, but massive hog farms continue to store fetid manure in open-air lagoons and disperse the liquid waste by spraying it on fields. And they still enjoy the help of legislators who ...

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