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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 Duplin County, N.C., home carried hazardous gases: methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide. “The odor is s...

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, hyd...

‘Hoos in the Pros Update: Basically, an injury report Published Monday, May. 10, 2021, 10:45 am Join AFP's 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 criticized at the time, given that Pierce was forced to piece together rotations around the losses o...

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 state's hog industry, died Wednesday, according to an announcement from the N.C. Environmental Justice Network. Friends and colleagues of Herring's remembered her as someone who helped put a face to the struggles that have long been reported by rural residents living near some hog farms. "These stories are personal but when it comes to injustice, she w...

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