Source: Adam Wagner, DURHAM HERALD SUN, 9/29/21


Align RNG, a partnership between Dominion and Smithfield, is proposing to capture raw biogas from 19 farms in Duplin and Sampson counties before processing and selling it. Here, a farm near Milford, Utah, that has already had an anaerobic digester built to capture the gas is shown, but the digester, covered in black, has not yet inflated with gas. ALIGN RNG Two North Carolina civil rights organizations have filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging that state regulators’ decision to permit biogas facilities at four Eastern North Carolina hog farms will have disproportionate impacts on people of color in surrounding areas.

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