hurricane matthew

Aerial Photos Document Massive Flooding of 36 Factory Farms

Aerial Photos Document Massive Flooding of 36 Factory Farms

Hurricane Matthew‘s rampage through North Carolina’s coastal plain flooded more than 140 feces-strewn swine and poultry barns, more than a dozen open pits brimming with hog waste and thousands of acres of manure-saturated fields, an analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Waterkeeper Alliance reveals. From aerial surveys and imagery, the two organizations produced […]

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    Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding

    Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding

    [This breaking news is an update to a post earlier today on EcoWatch: Millions of Chickens Feared Dead at Factory Farms in Wake of Hurricane Matthew] Waterkeeper Alliance and Upper Neuse Riverkeeper are responding to and documenting the breach of a 1.2-billion-gallon cooling pond dam at Duke Energy’s H.F. Lee plant. The breach occurred today […]

    Millions of Chickens Feared Dead at Factory Farms in Wake of Hurricane Matthew

    Millions of Chickens Feared Dead at Factory Farms in Wake of Hurricane Matthew

    Flooding across North Carolina continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and Gov. McCrory said some rivers are still rising. McCrory also warned that conditions in central and eastern parts of the state remain “extremely dangerous.” [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1313823198630614/ expand=1] After surveying the damage, environmentalists are expressing concerns after they found flooding at factory farms and […]

    After 12-Day Rampage, Hurricane Matthew Leaves More Than 1,000 Dead

    After 12-Day Rampage, Hurricane Matthew Leaves More Than 1,000 Dead

    By Jeff Masters and Bob Henson After a devastating 12-day rampage from the Caribbean to the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, Hurricane Matthew was reclassified as a post-tropical cyclone at 5 a.m. EDT Sunday by the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Matthew wasn’t exactly slacking off—its top sustained winds remained 75 mph as of NHC’s 2 p.m. Sunday advisory—but […]

    Matt Drudge Joins Rush Limbaugh’s Conspiracy Theory That Meteorologists Are Lying About Hurricane Matthew

    Matt Drudge Joins Rush Limbaugh’s Conspiracy Theory That Meteorologists Are Lying About Hurricane Matthew

    By Brendan Karet As millions evacuate the East Coast of Florida in preparation for Hurricane Matthew, which has already been responsible for more than 113 deaths across the Caribbean, the curator of the most widely read conservative website, Matt Drudge, irresponsibly peddled a conspiracy theory that federal officials have exaggerated the danger posed by Hurricane […]

    Hurricane Matthew Poses Extreme Threat to East Coast

    Hurricane Matthew Poses Extreme Threat to East Coast

    By Bob Henson After barreling across the Caribbean and through the Bahamas, Hurricane Matthew backed off from an immediate U.S. landfall on Thursday night, and odds were rising that the system might not come fully ashore before looping out to sea over the weekend. In its 11 p.m. EDT advisory, the National Hurricane Center kept […]