Source: NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 1/23/22

Editor’s note: This article was initially posted on Jan. 14, 2022. It was updated at 3 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2022, to include a comment from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.

A civil rights complaint last year over the impact of large-scale hog operations in North Carolina on minority communities garnered the attention of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which said Thursday it would investigate. In a letter to one of a group of agencies that filed the complaint, the Southern Environmental Law Center, Lillian Dorka, director of the EPA Office of General Counsel’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office, wrote that the EPA has decided to investigate after conducting a...

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