Source: Aman Azhar, INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS, 10/13/21


The legislation aimed at regulating North Carolina’s huge and largely unregulated poultry industry seemed modest in scope, requiring commercial chicken farms to submit waste management plans to environmental regulators so the public would know where millions of tons of chicken “litter” ends up.  But as the legislative session in Raleigh came to a close in July, the bill had moved not an inch—and no one was surprised.

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