When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

Eastern Shore poultry factory farms are a decades-old hotspot for pollution Today, a key Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) wastewater discharge permit for animal feeding operations expires, ...

As Barbara Dozhier prepared a ham before the arrival of her great-grandchildren and the rest of her family last Christmas Eve, she prayed for a weather forecast with wind out of the south. A breeze in ...

Maryland’s general wastewater discharge permit for the state’s polluting poultry factory farms expires on July 7 Annapolis, MD – Today, nine national and state environmental groups sent a letter ...

EASTERN SHORE, MD - An environmental group is calling on Governor Wes Moore to halt new permits for factory poultry farms in Maryland, claiming the waste produced by the Eastern Shore’s robust poultry ...

The idea of cows grazing in a pasture seems idyllic. We asked experts how their emissions stack up compared to factory farms. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey And that is bad news for our planet. By Matt ...

An application for a chicken factory farm in Lincolnshire has prompted more than 1,000 objections from people across the UK. Six poultry houses would be built at Newton Grange Farm in Newton, near ...

For climate conscious eaters, beef has become the food to avoid. That’s largely thanks to the outsized climate footprint of factory farmed beef, which contributes more greenhouse gases per serving to ...

Mark and Sophie Ellison are doing the exact opposite of what Earl Lauer Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture under Richard Nixon, recommended to farmers in the 1970s: “Get big or get out.” Instead, the ...