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Showing posts with label odors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label odors. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Californians complain about 'dead skunk' smell of pot farms

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Mike Wondolowski sometimes wears a respirator when outdoors to escape the smell. (NYT photo by Jim Wilson) With recreational marijuan...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Alabama towns protest backup of rail cars full of New York City sewage sludge headed for local landfill

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Rural residents in Northern Alabama put their foot down about shipments of sewage solids from New York City, resulting in a legal dispute t...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Booming dairy industry in Wisconsin county causing concern that too many cattle hurts rural life

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Kewaunee County, Wisconsin  ( Wikipedia map) A thriving dairy industry in one Wisconsin county is causing a divide over whether too man...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Rural South Dakota residents frustrated with odors coming from nearby hog farm

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Rural residents in Davison County, South Dakota ( Wikipedia map) vented their frustrations on Tuesday to the county commission that littl...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Greek yogurt company has brought jobs, and 'nasty' odor, to rural Idaho town

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It's getting stinky in the 250-population town of Hollister, Idaho. In December, Chobani opened the world's largest yogurt plant...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Odor study indicates air pollution from industrial hog farms can increase neighbors' blood pressure

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Air pollution from large-scale pig farms may increase blood pressure in people living nearby, according to a University of North Carolina...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

McCain's '10 porkiest' earmarks are mostly rural

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Earmarks are coming under fresh fire, with Congress debating an omnibus spending bill to fund much of the government for the fiscal year end...
Monday, February 23, 2009

In Iowa, manure replaces costly chemical fertilizer

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The use of pig manure on Iowa cornfields is helping farmers' pocketbooks and the environment at the same time. The manure is replacing c...
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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Iowa ag chief seeks $22 million to fight animal odor

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Iowa's new agriculture secretary wants to spend $22 million over the next five years to find ways to control livestock odor. Bill Northe...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

EPA, universities start two-year, nine-state study of air pollution from animal-feeding operations

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We know manure stinks, and our personal opinion is that hog manure stinks worst, but the Environmental Protection Agency says it needs a str...