by southeastej | Jul 21, 2017 | EJ Issues
I saw firsthand in North Carolina how corporate interests are disproportionately placing environmental and public health burdens on low-income communities of color that they would never accept in their own neighborhoods. In North Carolina, large corporate pork...
by southeastej | Jul 12, 2017 | EJ Issues
Over Duplin County…there are at least fifty (hog farms) in a ten-mile radius. Each farm has a minimum of two thousand pigs, most far more. So a lowball estimate would mean one hundred thousand pigs in ten miles. Ten thousand pigs a mile. A 180-pound pig can...
by southeastej | Jun 30, 2017 | EJ Issues
When the final chapter is written on these cases (nuisance lawsuits against the hog industry), we’ll see the people being represented are being prostituted for money. -NC State Rep. Jimmy Dixon (Duplin, R) “Deep financial ties exist between the...
by southeastej | May 24, 2017 | EJ Issues
We decry the NC State Legislature’s override of Governor Cooper’s decision to veto HB 467, which eliminates compensation for our partner communities beyond the fair market value or fair rental value of their homes in nuisance lawsuits against Big-Ag–even...
by southeastej | May 5, 2017 | EJ Issues
“House Bill 467, “AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE REMEDIES AVAILABLE IN PRIVATE NUISANCE ACTIONS AGAINST AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY OPERATIONS” The agriculture and forestry industries are vital to our economy and we should encourage them to thrive. But nuisance laws can be...
