Florence Fall-Out Threatens to Release Waste Stored in Dozens of North Carolina Hog Lagoons - Smithsonian

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Florence Fall-Out Threatens to Release Waste Stored in Dozens of North Carolina Hog Lagoons Smithsonian The nearly 10 million pigs housed in hog farms across North Carolina produce roughly 10 billion gallons of manure per year, and as Sarah Sax notes for Vice News, much of this waste eventually lands in the state's more than 3,300 “hog lagoons ... Hurricane Florence: One Week Later Here's What We Know and Here's What's NextUnion of Concerned Scientists (blog) The Unequal Distribution of Catastrophe in North CarolinaThe New Yorker Does This Photograph Show a Stretch of I-40 in North Carolina Underwater?Snopes.com all 17,118 news articles »

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