After extensive hog farm and lagoon flooding during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, the state signed an agreement with the pork industry with the goal of finding better ways to dispose of waste. Farmers say ...

A hog farm in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The lagoons were supposed to be gone by now. Nearly 20 years ago, North Carolina faced a reckoning. Hurricane Floyd inundated the state, flooding the open pits ...

At the heart of the environmental debate is a proposal to increase renewable energy credits (RECs) for facilities that convert hog waste into biogas, particularly in economically distressed Tier 1 ...

Florida-based Plasma Energy Group plans to test new vaporizing technology on hog waste produced at Sandy River Farm in Conway County this month in hopes of eventually using the technology at C&H Hog ...

BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Water samples taken near the site where nearly 30,000 gallons of hog waste spilled in Bladen County show heightened levels of bacteria. The spill happened when a pipe ...

Optima KV has already been processing hog into pipeline-quality gas in this converter in Kenansville, Duplin County. Smithfield Foods says it will cover most of its open hog waste lagoons over the ...