Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 4/27/21


A two-minute video promoting the alleged benefits of biogas is notable not for what it says, but for what it fails to say. The video was co-sponsored by the NC Department of Agriculture, the NC Pork Council and the state’s Tobacco Trust Fund Commission. Heather Overton, spokeswoman for the agriculture department, said the commission paid $5,600 for the production. The General Assembly created the commission in 2000 to distribute settlement money from major cigarette manufacturers to farmers and other workers displaced by the downturn of the tobacco industry. It  is administratively housed...

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