RALEIGH, N.C. - Senators in the country's No. 2 hog-growing state sought Thursday to further shield industrial-scale hog operations from lawsuits by neighbours who have long complained that open-air animal waste pits comparable to city sewage plants frustrate their daily lives. North Carolina's Senate tentatively approved legislation to make it more difficult to successfully file lawsuits that claim a new or expanded agricultural operation created a nuisance for existing neighbours.

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