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Pushback grows in Westover over waste-to-energy facility

July 4, 2017, Somerset County, NJ – A giant facility being planned in Somerset County may convert tons of chicken litter into electricity some day, but first it may need to make converts out of skeptical neighbors and environmentalists.

Its critics charge that the anaerobic digester, if built, would pollute the air with methane and nearby waterways with nutrients while giving further license to the region’s poultry industry to continue its expansion. READ MORE