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Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U S deaths per year, study finds

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 farm next to her mother’s Duplin County, N.C., home carried hazardous gases: methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide. “The odor is so offensive that we start gagging, we start coughing,” she told a congressional committee in November 2019. Herring, who died last week, said she and other residents developed headaches, breathing problems and heart conditions from the fumes.

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Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U S deaths per year, study finds

Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U S deaths per year, study finds
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Lawsuit Says Smithfield Biogas Project Must Fix Water Pollution And Environmental Injustices

Lawsuit Says Smithfield Biogas Project Must Fix Water Pollution And Environmental Injustices On behalf of the Environmental Justice Community Action Network and Cape Fear River Watch, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged in the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings four state permits for Smithfield-owned hog operations to use giant pits of untreated hog feces and urine to produce gas while spraying the harmful waste on surrounding areas, which continues a long history of water pollution and harm to the families – disproportionately Black and Brown people – living nearby. “The law requires Smithfield to use cleaner technology, and Smithfield is not above the law,” said Blakely Hildebrand, attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. “Smithfield must do more to stop its pollution and continued environmental injustices rather than clinging to the cheapest, most harmful method possible to handle untreated sewage collecting it in pits and spraying it

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Smithfield must fix pollution and environmental injustices at hog operations producing biogas

“The law requires Smithfield to use cleaner technology, and Smithfield is not above the law,” says Attorney Blakely Hildebrand. “Smithfield must do more to stop its pollution and continued environmental injustices rather than clinging to the cheapest, most harmful method possible to handle untreated sewage collecting it in pits and spraying it onto fields when cleaner technology is available.” Ignoring long-standing environmental justice and pollution concerns, the permits issued by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality entrench a primitive waste lagoon and sprayfield system at each of the Smithfield-owned operations in which untreated sewage waste from thousands of animals will be collected in large pits and sprayed onto neighboring fields.

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The Problem With Smithfield s Pig Biofuel Plan in North Carolina

The Problem With Smithfield s Pig Biofuel Plan in North Carolina
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