A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday set the stage for a court battle to decide whether the world’s largest pork producer will keep paying for environmental projects as it promised 18 years ago or if its millions should go ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A federal jury decided Aug. 3 that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and rumbling trucks The jury found ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Senators in the country’s No. 2 hog-growing state sought June 7 to further shield industrial-scale hog operations from lawsuits by neighbors who have long complained that open-air animal waste pits comparable to city sewage plants frustrate their daily ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Legislators in the country’s No. 2 hog-growing state on June 5 stepped up efforts to shield industrial hog operations from neighbors who have complained for decades about the smell, noise and flies generated by housing thousands of animals together. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The world’s largest pork producer put its best case before jurors May 30 to debunk claims that its waste is responsible for stenches so foul that life for rural neighbors is miserable. It’s the second lawsuit to come to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Industrial-scale hog producers knew for decades that noxious smells from open-air sewage pits tormented neighbors but didn’t change their livestock-raising methods to keep production costs low, the lawyer for farm neighbors told jurors in a federal lawsuit April ...

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