Arkansasonline Buffalo River protected, state agency says No need to list feeders as polluted, lawmakers told; park official disagrees By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: March 30, 2016 at 3:10 a.m. The Buffalo National River is in good health, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality officials told the Agriculture, Forestry, and Economic Development Joint […]
Earthjustice. org THE MASSIVE FISH KILL FLORIDA COULD HAVE PREVENTED By David Guest | Friday, March 25, 2016 The environmental news this Florida tourist season continues to get more horrific. We reported earlier this month about the polluted water spewing onto Florida’s east and west coasts from Lake Okeechobee, turning blue waters brown and […]
Brahana disheartenedA scientist’s pleaBy Mike Masterson I’ve previously written about our state Department of Environmental Quality’s (cough) decision not to honor requests from the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey to include three Ozark streams flowing in the Buffalo National River watershed on the agency’s 2016 list of […]
TROUBLED WATERS: INSIDE THE FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR WATERWAYS By Earthjustice | Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Arkansasonline Environment notebook By Emily Walkenhorst Agency sets hearing on manure permit The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing April 11 in Jasper on a request by Ellis Campbell, a farmer in Newton County, to apply up to 6.6 million gallons of hog manure from C&H Hog […]
Arkansas Times Arkansas environmental regulator dodges climate question by Max Brantley March 14, 2016 You may have read news coverage of EPA-critical testimony before Congress last week by Becky Keogh, the Hutchinson administration leader of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. A couple of points of interest weren’t included in news articles. Keogh, who joined state government […]
NWAOnline John Van Brahana What lies beneath Hydrogeologist uninterested in politics steps in to save the Buffalo River By April Robertson Posted: March 13, 2016 On family vacations growing up, John Van Brahana collected rocks in the back of the car. It annoyed his kid sister, who couldn’t see the value […]
Listen to Ozarks At Large: KUAF Radio Buffalo National River Park Service Claims More Tributaries Ecologically Impaired By JACQUELINE FROELICH Every two years, Arkansas submits a listof impaired streams, rivers and lakes to EPA for cleanup. This year Department of Interior National Park Service agents submitted several tributaries to the Buffalo National River […]
ADEQ Director Becky Keogh gives testimony to US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, titled “COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM: STATE PERSPECTIVES ON EPA REGULATORY ACTIONS AND THE ROLE OF STATES AS CO-REGULATORS” March 9, 2016
Arkansasonline On the Buffalo Critical alliance By Mike Masterson Leaders of the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance have penned a letter to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (cough) that justifiably criticizes that agency’s failure to include three primary tributaries of the Buffalo National River on its latest official list of impaired […]
Arkansasonline U.S.: List 3 streams as fouled State holding off, says data lacking By Emily Walkenhorst National Park Service officials have asked the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to list three tributaries to the Buffalo National River on the department’s biennial list of polluted water bodies in Arkansas, but so far […]
Eureka Springs Independent Federal agencies deny karst evidence Becky GilletteWednesday, March 02, 2016 A 6,500-hog factory in the Buffalo River Watershed is not located in a karst region, marked with springs and underground streams that could provide pathways for toxic hog wastes to pollute one of the more scenic and popular […]