Sad news for citizens of North Carolina. From the Rachel Carson Council  BREAKING!! Hog Pollution Protection BillHeads to Governor’s Desk Sign here to tellGovernor Roy Cooper (D-NC) to VETO it!! Your efforts helped get bi-partisan opposition to HB 467 that protects the industrial hog industry and limits citizens’ rights to […]

Our Buffalo What permit? By Mike Masterson Posted: April 9, 2017 at 1:48 a.m. Many Arkansans have wondered for years how in the world our state’s Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) could have permitted a large hog factory in the sacred Buffalo National River watershed without conducting extensive geologic and engineering […]

Arkansasonline OPINION MIKE MASTERSON: Letter to the governor  That hog factory By Mike Masterson The original version of this appeal was published April 12, 2016, almost a year ago. This being the final week kindly afforded we the people by our state’s Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) for public comment on […]

Arkansasonline Court date sought in hog-waste case Two of the three women who appealed the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to issue a permit to EC Farms in the Buffalo River watershed have taken their case to circuit court. Carol Bitting and Lynn Wellford filed an appeal in Newton […]