Page 9 - Devon Hall News Today

Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 US deaths per year, study finds Published May 10 Dust drifts over a cornfield in Alden, Iowa, on Aug. 28, 2017. Corn dominates the landscape and is primarily used for producing ethanol and feeding hogs. Iowa is the leading U.S. producer of corn and pork. (Bonnie Jo Mount / Washington Post) Share on Facebook Print article The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm next to her mother’s Dupl...

Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths per year, study finds Sarah Kaplan © Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg A hog farm stands surrounded by floodwater in this aerial photograph taken above Vanceboro, N.C., U.S., in 2018 in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. A new study claims that more than 17,000 annual deaths are attributable to pollution from farms across the U.S. The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog ...

‘Hoos in the Pros Update: Basically, an injury report Published Monday, May. 10, 2021, 10:45 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com De’Andre Hunter De’Andre Hunter may be close (finally!) to a return, which should be a boost to the surging Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta fired coach Lloyd Pierce after a 14-20 start, a move that was heavily c...

Elsie Herring dies: The hog-farm critic personified environmental justice for many Adam Wagner, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) May 8—Elsie Herring, a Duplin County woman who became one of the most outspoken critics of the states hog industry, died Wednesday, according to an announcement from the N.C. Environmental Justice Network. Friends and colleagues of Herrings remembered her as someone who helped put a face to the struggles that have long been reported by rural resid...

NORTH VERNON, Ind. - The North Vernon Police Department (NVPD) pulled over a car for a moving violation on Walnut Street and the resulting investigati...

 E-Mail DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains are spreading between pigs, farmworkers, their families and community residents, and represents an emerging public health threat, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. S. aureus is commonly found in soil and water, as well as o...

The broadcasting service of Northern Illinois University NPR news, intelligent talk and weekend blues music and entertainment to enrich inspire and inform.

Listen • 3:50 President Biden has promised to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on environmental justice. Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hours drive from the coast. Its lovely unless you live downwind of one of the countys many industrial hog farms. "It can get really bad," says Hall, t...

Carolyn Kaster/AP toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP President Biden has promised to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on environmental justice. Carolyn Kaster/AP Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hours drive from the coast. Its lovely unless you live downwind of one of the...

By President-elect Joe Biden leaves at The Queen Theater after announcing his climate and energy team nominees and appointees in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour’s drive from the coast. It’s lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county’s many industrial hog farms. “It can get really b...