Maryland's poultry farmers have invested heavily in systems to stem runoff, writes Holly Porter, and claims by some groups that farms "spew" chicken manure "directly into waterways" are divorced from ...

The Eastern Shore can be home to as many as 36 million chickens at a time, which produce a lot of waste that can threaten the ...

Plans for a new poultry farm which could house 180,000 birds have attracted more than two hundred objections. RH-J Farms has ...

Factory Farms Are Inherently Polluting and Vulnerable to Flooding In 2018, Hurricane Florence slammed into the North Carolina coast, flooding tens of thousands of homes — and dozens of factory farms.

Livestock farming within the St. Croix River watershed has created waste equivalent to 3.25 million extra people living in ...

Each year, industrial livestock operations create a staggering amount of manure and other farm animal waste; 941 billion pounds, according to a Food and Water Watch report from 2024.

Ever since a six-building poultry farm opened across the street in 2018 — where 336, 000 birds are raised at a time — family gatherings at the Dozhier home have been forced inside.

They never traveled too far from the farm, knowing that 30 minutes without water, 30 minutes without air circulation or high temperatures can be a life-or-death situation for an animal like the ...

Supporters argued that eastern Oklahoma water is cleaner than it has been in decades, but opponents said if HB 4118 had been in place when litigation over chicken pollution in the Illinois River ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times more ...