The Environmental Integrity Project’s analysis estimates that about 1 million more pounds of nitrogen pollution are entering the Chesapeake Bay each year from the poultry industry than state and federal cleanup programs estimate.
Chicken farms will have to move north to places like Pennsylvania to escape sweltering temperatures in the South, causing more pollution running off into waterways like the Chesapeake Bay.
At least 1.7 million chickens have died from flooding in the state. The impact is now coming into focus — including overflowing pools of hog manure and waterlogged sweet potato fields.
