Harrison Daily Times Hog farm loans need new assessments; DOJ withdraws appeal of court decision Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 4:30 pm | Staff Report [email protected] | 0 comments LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to drop its challenge of a federal court ruling that enjoined more than $3 million in […]
Appeal dropped in Buffalo River hog lawsuit 4/24/2015 8:00 PMBy Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal agencies will have a year to do a new environmental assessment of a hog farm near the Buffalo National River after a federal appeals court’s ruling Friday. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Arkansas Times Justice Department drops appeal of Buffalo River hog farm ruling Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM Earth Justice announces that the federal Justice Department has dropped the appeal of a court ruling that federal agencies had failed to do sufficient environmental assessments before providing federal loan guarantees for […]
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission met this morning and enacted a renewed 180-day moratorium on permitting new medium or large animal feeding operations in the Buffalo River Watershed. This was the third time the Commission has voted to place a temporary ban on any new industrial hog operations […]
KUAR Radio Moratorium On New Industrial Hog Farms Near Buffalo River Extended Again By JACOB KAUFFMAN • A 180-day moratorium on new concentrated animal feeding operations – or CAFOs – in the Buffalo River Watershed is now in effect, for the third time. The Arkansas Pollution and Ecology Commission renewed the temporary […]
Arkansas Online Hog-farm ban’s renewal on commission’s agenda By Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission on Friday will consider a third 180-day ban on new medium and large hog farms in the Buffalo River watershed, two days after the governor issued a statement in […]
Arkansas Times Gov. Hutchinson favors continued moratorium on new hog farms in Buffalo watershed Posted By Max Brantley on Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:48 PM Gov. Asa Hutchinson today said he supports reinstating a 180-day moratorium on new permits for medium and large-scale animal feeding operations in the Buffalo River watershed. His statement: “I think the […]
KUAF Radio Listen to this 7-minute interview here. New Film Captures Buffalo River CAFO Controversy By JACQUELINE FROELICH As a young adult, NOAA fisheries biologist and Arkansas native, Teresa Turk, camped along Big Creek, a tributary to the Buffalo National River. So when she learned that a new Confined Animal Feeding […]
Harrison Daily Times ADEQ holds hearing on hog farm request; Modification to waste storage ponds By DAVID HOLSTED [email protected] |0 comments JASPER — Several dozen people, supporters and opponents alike, were in attendance at the Jasper School on April 20 for a hearing concerning the C&H Hog Farm. The 50-minute, orderly hearing was […]
Baxter Bulletin (read the story with images here) Hog farm wants to modify operating permit Thomas Garrett, [email protected]:10 p.m. CDT April 21, 2015 C&H Hog Farm, located near the Buffalo National River in Mount Judea, wants to apply more wastewater on its land JASPER – A request to modify C&H […]
KY3 News Eric Hilt, [email protected]: 10:34 PM CDT Apr 20, 2015 JASPER, Ark. – A controversial hog farm near the Buffalo National River is hoping to change how it deals with some waste from its operation, but people living nearby say they don’t want to chance any changes to the C&H hog farm. In the past, public […]
Theculturetrip.com The 10 Most Beautiful Towns in Arkansas Jasper Located in the heart of Newton County, Jasper is a tiny, scenic town nestled in the Ozark Mountains not far from the Buffalo National River – the first waterway in the US to be designated national river status. Surrounded by breathtaking […]
Arkansas Online Godspeed, Uncle John By Mike Masterson Across his 26 years as the congressman for the Third District, John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison earned a reputation for helping constituents as well as every Arkansan who needed it. No wonder so many of the influential and ordinary folks loved and […]
KY3 TV News SPRINGDALE, Ark. –Former Republican U.S. Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt died Wednesday at age 92 at Regency Hospital. His son, John Arthur Hammerschmidt, announced his death. In the 1960s, Hammerschmidt was chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, which was then a predominately Democratic state. He also operated a […]
Baxter County Bulletin ADEQ hearing set on C&H Hog Farm modifications March 23, 2015 LITTLE ROCK – An Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality public hearing for the proposed modification of coverage for C&H Hog Farm in Mount Judea under the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation General Permit is set for 6 […]
A pond leaked? By Mike Masterson, Arkansas Democrat Gazette March 22, 2015 I was shocked, downright shocked I say, to read a news account where Cargill Inc., the primary supporter and supplier of the controversial hog factory in the Buffalo National River watershed at Mount Judea, had water from its […]
Arkansas Business Environmentalist Calls for Strict Oversight of Hog Farm Near Buffalo Rivernby Rob Moritz on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015 3:29 pm CONWAY – Environmentalists must be vocal in their opposition to a hog farm near the Buffalo National River watershed because it’s not only a potential threat to the […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette March 17, 2015 Hogs on the Buffalo: Review the permit By Mike Masterson Attorneys for environmental groups have asked the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) to reopen C&H Hog Farms’ operating permit for public comment and review because of all the flaws they’ve found in revisions to […]
Read the story with photos here: The Baxter Bulletin Buffalo National River: Is industrial hog farm harmful? Thomas Garrett, [email protected] 9:57 p.m. CDT March 12, 2015 Monitoring of the Buffalo National River in the area of a Newton County industrial hog farm showed runoff from a tributary sent E. coli […]
Massive amounts of manure spills from farm field into rural community FULTON, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Thousands of gallons of manure has spilled into a West Michigan community. It’s happening in the Fulton area, which is in rural Kalamazoo County. The manure is running off from a farmer’s field and […]