McClatchy Newspapers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Environmental groups and the poultry industry are closely watching a North Carolina case that could prevent the state from using federal water-quality protection laws to regulate airborne emissions from a livestock operation.
Environmentalists contend the outcome will have national implications, but the other side says the matter has already been settled by the courts.
At issue is a massive egg farm in Hyde County that has been operating since 2006 about a mile from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
The Indiana-based Rose Acre Farms received a five-year permit under the Clean. . .
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