ACTIVISTS SAY STATE CLIMATE BILL COULD CURB ANIMAL FEEDLOT POLLUTION

Environmentalists say a new voluntary climate change bill in North Carolina could allow the state's massive pork production industry to sell emissions credits under any future national cap-and-trade program. The activists are touting the bill as a way to encourage hog feedlots to develop innovative technologies that reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. State Sen. Charles W. Albertson (D) introduced a bill March 23 to set up a "legislative commission on global climate change" that includes industry officials and...