Administrative Watch: DEQ Will Investigate Citizen Hog Farm Complaints
NC’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is revising its internal policies that under former Gov. Pat McCrory led to repeated failures to investigate complaints of pollution control violations by industrial-scale hog farms.
The action was announced two weeks ago by citizen groups including the Waterkeeper Alliance, in settlement of their complaint against DEQ that it was failing to live up to its obligation to investigate complaints that hog waste was being sprayed on fields in violation of state rules. DEQ agreed to promptly investigate, and to provide monthly updates online for a list of identified violators of the rules.
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