Democrat Gazette Letter to Editor The next battleground Is clean water our next battleground? Without oil, we may have to walk, but without water, no one and nothing can survive. These days the news is full of water woes. Flint, Mich., may be just the tip of the iceberg when […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2016/apr/04/letters-to-the-editor-20160404/?opinion Letters to the Editor Posted: April 4, 2016 at 5:40 p.m. State response on Buffalo River inadequate I attended a special meeting of the Arkansas Joint House and Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development on March 29 in Little Rock. Despite the statement at that meeting by […]
Rhetoric over science?By Mike Masterson Imagine my relief to hear Becky Keogh, director of the state agency that wrongheadedly permitted that controversial hog factory in our treasured Buffalo National River watershed, assure legislators her staff is hard at work protecting the “healthy” river and its tributaries.Anyone buying that in light […]
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 […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Pollution comments sought Agency preparing list of water bodies needing cleanup By Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality officials will hear public comments this week about the state’s latest proposed list of polluted water bodies that require cleanup under the federal Clean Water Act. Tuesday’s meeting is […]
KTTN Trenton Farms Denied Permit for Grundy County CAFO The Missouri Clean Water Commission yesterday made official, it’s decision to overturn an operating permit for Trenton Farms Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation proposed for the Hickory area of rural Grundy County. The commission last Wednesday voted four to two, over-ruling the […]
Science ignored A new assessment By Mike Masterson Posted: February 28, 2016 at 1:42 a.m. Here we go again, circling the same wagons accomplishing nothing while avoiding robust discussion over the real potential for environmental calamity in our precious Buffalo National River watershed. And for what, I continue to wonder? To […]
KUAF Radio Federal Agencies: Industrial Hog Farm Near Buffalo River Poses No Environmental Impacts By JACQUELINE FROELICH & OZARKS AT LARGE STAFF Listen to this segment here.n
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Report: Pig-farm harm unlikely 2 agencies issue ‘finding of no significant impact’ on river By Emily Walkenhorst Two federal agencies’ “finding of no significant impact” report on the environment from C&H Hog Farms near the Buffalo River has been signed, effectively ending a lawsuit that sought to curtail […]