The permit allows farms to bypass individual water quality review and public hearing processes when installing an anaerobic digester.
Category: Food & Agriculture
Posted inPublic Health
‘This plan is a lie’: Biogas on hog farms could do more harm than good
North Carolina residents, researchers, and farmers say the rapidly growing industry distracts from a massive hog waste problem—and the public health risks that it causes.
Posted inCOVID-19, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
As N.C. poultry plants failed to curb COVID-19, Latina workers stood in the gap
With little to no protection from their employers or the state during the pandemic, a mother-daughter community health worker duo has helped launch and lead vaccination events.
Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, North Carolina, Public Health
Farm cooperatives allow Latinos to grow and sell food on their own terms
In an industry benefiting white farmers, Tierra Fértil roots a growing Latino community in Henderson County, N.C.
Posted inCOVID-19, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
N.C. has vaccinated over 13,000 farmworkers. Advocates are making it happen.
COVID-19 outbreaks seized the farmworker community last year. The state is finally stepping up with the help of nonprofits and local health departments.
Posted inCOVID-19, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
‘You can’t take that from me’: A former North Carolina farmworker’s fight for protection
Yesenia Cuello was raised a first-generation American near the tobacco field where she toiled as a kid. Now she’s leading a fight for the protections she needed. This story is published in partnership with Enlace Latino NC. Léalo en Español en Enlace Latino NC. When Yesenia Cuello was 17, she took a photo. In it, […]
Posted inFlorida, Food & Agriculture, Gulf Coast, Justice
How Pensacola’s Black grocers are providing access to fresh, affordable food
In a county with high rates of food insecurity, longtime residents are working to fill the gaps.