Ammonia from Rose Acre Farms endangers nearby wildlife refuge, waterways and entire Tar-Pamlico River system

Rose Acre’s Hyde County facility, the largest industrial egg farm in North Carolina, includes twelve high-rise henhouses equipped with giant ventilation fans. The henhouses currently hold nearly 4 million egg-laying hens. These millions of hens generate an enormous amount of urine and fecal matter. Bedding material soiled by the dropped excrement, and excrement-associated pollutants, including…

Sufficient evidence of pollutant discharge into waterways warrants trial

Clean Water Act protections under attack