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September 12, 2018

Florence Threatens Catastrophic Waste Spills from Pig Farms, Coal Ash Ponds
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In Virginia, Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the site of the
construction of a controversial gas pipeline, the Mountain Valley
Pipeline, threatening to further pollute pristine waterways with
erosion. Meanwhile, in neighboring North Carolina, experts are warning
that Hurricane Florence could kill thousands of farm animals and trigger
catastrophic waste spills from sewage treatment plants, toxic coal ash
ponds, hog waste lagoons and chicken farms. Many of the factory hog
farms in North Carolina store their waste by spraying it on nearby
fields and neighborhoods or by depositing it in lagoons, which can
overflow during hurricanes, causing the toxic pig manure to pour into
nearby waterways.


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