Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 5/11/20


The North Carolina Farm Bureau has temporarily prevailed in a contested case hearing against the NC Department of Environmental Quality over three issues related to industrialized hog farms. Administrative Law Judge Donald Overby on Friday placed a temporary stay on requirements that were included in general swine permits: groundwater monitoring, annual reporting, and phosphorus loss tests. Overby didn’t rule on the necessity of these requirements, only on whether DEQ was legally allowed to include them in the general permits.

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