Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains

Inside Climate News · By Lisa Sorg · last updated June 8, 2025 – 1:02 AM

Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded by climate-amplified storms, threatening yards, drinking water wells, rivers, creeks and wetlands.

By Lisa Sorg

As soon as the skies clear after a hurricane hits eastern North Carolina, Larry Baldwin climbs in the passenger seat of a single-engine plane, usually with his friend and pilot Rick Dove, and surveys the industrialized swine farms inundated with flood water.

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