Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas

Inside Climate News · By Lisa Sorg · last updated September 6, 2025 – 1:05 AM

N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents.

By Lisa Sorg

The Trump administration has cancelled a $417,000 federal grant that would have funded research on the social and economic impacts of biogas production from industrialized swine operations in North Carolina.

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