Dozens of people turned out Monday to weigh in on proposed legislation that would ban new or expanded megadairies, chicken ranches and other large confined-animal operations in Oregon through June 30, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. North Carolina’s poultry farms are everywhere. The state cloaks big poultry in secrecy ...

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 ...

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 ...

A year ago, the owner of an excavation company proposed building the largest factory chicken farm in the state on a rural farm between Scio and Mill City on the banks of Thomas Creek. Jason Peters ...

CASS COUNTY, Mich. (WNDU) — A proposed industrial chicken farm continues to ruffle feathers from local residents. The proposal has caused controversy for months, but recently, an appeal was filed to ...

Once voted the UK's favorite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary—150 miles through an officially recognized "national landscape." But this idyllic picture is ...

In 2022, three industrial chicken farms set plans to operate in Scio, proposing to house 350,000 chickens at a time. Neighbors quickly came together, launching a grassroots effort to fight the ...

NC poultry farm locations. Sourced from Environmental Working Group data, Stanford University data, OpenStreetMap data and Charlotte Observer analysis. Visualization by Gavin Off and Susan Merriam ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. These 500-foot-long chicken houses, which sit off of Jarman Road near the small town of ...