Gary Marx

For years, wealthy nursing home operator Philip Esformes seemed to live in perpetual motion, using private jets to travel between his Water Tower Place condominium and his mansions in Miami...

When an estimated 29 million gallons of hog waste started pouring into the ditches and waterways around the slaughtering plant run by Cargill Meat Solutions in Beardstown, state officials said...

For years, pork producers have been opening immense hog confinements in Illinois despite the objections of local residents and public officials concerned the operations would destroy their way of life....

Holding thousands of pigs at a time, modern livestock confinements are designed to store millions of gallons of manure, then apply the waste as fertilizer to nearby farmland. But pollution...

Public opinion research shows consumers overwhelmingly care about the handling of hogs and other livestock and will pay more for the assurance of humane treatment. But the labels on supermarket...