The North Carolina Supreme Court must decide whether three challenged conditions in state animal waste permits are state government rules. If so, those conditions would be thrown out because they didn’t go through the state’s rulemaking process.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in a case pitting the state Department of Environmental Quality against the North Carolina Farm Bureau. The farm group opposes three conditions tied to state animal waste permits affecting 2,000 farmers statewide.
Two of North Carolina’s leading business lobbying groups are supporting the NC Farm Bureau in its legal battle against state regulators’ proposed animal waste permit requirements. The NC Chamber and National Federation of Independent Business filed a joint document Friday with the state Supreme Court.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will decide in the months ahead whether a Burke County poultry operation can be sued for its treatment of baby chicks.
The North Carolina Farm Bureau is urging the state Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s ruling against state environmental regulators in a dispute over animal waste permits. The Farm Bureau argues that challenged permit conditions should be treated as state rules.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld Pender County’s rejection of a 2,300-acre solar farm. An unpublished court opinion Tuesday explained that plaintiff Coastal Pine Solar failed to prove that it complied with local ordinance requirement
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is urging the state’s highest court to reverse a lower court’s decision in a case pitting the department against the North Carolina Farm Bureau. The dispute involves conditions tied to state animal waste permits.
Hemp growers and retailers in North Carolina may be helped by a provision in a Senate bill that was discussed in a Senate committee meeting Tuesday.
RALEIGH — Welcome to Carolina Journal Online’s Friday Interview. Today the John Locke Foundation’s Donna Martinez discusses North Carolina agriculture with N.C. Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
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