Source: Kristen Johnson, NEWS & RECORD, 5/3/21


More than two dozen environmentalist and social justice groups signed a petition detailing concerns about the potentially harmful impacts of biogas projects in rural North Carolina communities of color and are calling for their elimination. The document, signed by 26 groups including the NC Sierra Club, the NC Conservation Network and the Poor People's Campaign, also criticizes Smithfield Foods for not upholding a promise the company made to create safer technologies to manage hog waste on swine farms in the state.

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