RALEIGH, N.C. – The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A Colorado company is breaking ground on a Duplin County plant that will provide Duke Energy Corp. with power from pig poop. Carbon Cycle Energy starts construction Thursday on ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, ...

A pledge by Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, to transform hog manure into a clean natural gas aims to mint hundreds of pig farms in North Carolina into renewable energy gold mines.

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The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah and Missouri a ...

Duke Energy is turning to home-grown pig poop to help it comply with state law. The Charlotte-based utility on Thursday said one of its power plants in central North Carolina has begun burning natural ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The world's largest pork company is teaming up with a major energy company to turn pig manure into renewable natural gas. Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy announced a joint ...