Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 5/11/21

 The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to massively streamline the approval process for biogas collectors at hog farms over the objections of environmentalists who say it will lock in an antiquated way of dealing with hog waste. Senate Bill 605 – North Carolina’s annual farm bill – includes a number of changes in state agricultural policy. The most controversial deals with the permitting process on biogas operations, which typically amount to covering a lagoon of hog waste...

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