In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not only can we see the air pollution generated by ...

Elsie Herring, who over time became the face of the movement against North Carolina’s farm pollution, got it especially bad.

The methodologies were intended to allow the EPA and citizens to calculate factory farms’ pollution and begin enforcing clean air laws. Nearly 14,000 animal feeding operations signed up for this deal, ...

WASHINGTON— Community and conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for overstepping its authority in exempting factory farms from pollution-reporting requirements ...

A state climate program helps Smithfield Foods and others profit from animal waste. Scientists and neighbors say the deal ...

Oklahoma politicians have sided with poultry farms polluting our streams to protect the profits of out-of-state corporations ...

Increased awareness of the adverse impacts factory farming has on animals ... more than 80 percent of respondents were concerned about air and water pollution, worker safety, and health problems ...