At the heart of the environmental debate is a proposal to increase renewable energy credits (RECs) for facilities that convert hog waste into biogas, particularly in economically distressed Tier 1 ...

Montauk Energy’s warehouse on Highway 24 will be the site of its project to generate electricity by sending hog waste through ovens. By heating hog waste, the company will generate biogas that will ...

Environmentalists cry foul, saying the bill is an effort to "lock in" the system of storing hog waste in ponds and spraying liquid watse on nearby fields. The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday to ...

Efforts to generate energy from hog waste in Eastern North Carolina received a jumpstart from a provision tucked into the 90th page of a bill passed last year that was originally supposed to focus on ...