Arsenic in chicken feed fouls emissions from manure-burning plant

Poultry-litter fired power plants proposed for three North Carolina counties could release a mix of pollutants, including arsenic from chicken feed and fine particles from sawdust in litter.

The plants would give growers a new market for the tons of waste produced in one of the nation's biggest poultry states. But the plants might also release comparatively large amounts of toxic arsenic, lung-damaging fine particles and pollutants that form smog, according to preliminary state estimates and the one operating plant of Pennsylvania-based Fibrowatt LLC in Minnesota.

The company has yet to file its permit requests.  Full story: Charlotte Observor