Save the Buffalo River For the future and heritage of Arkansas, save the Buffalo River. Let the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality hear your voice. What is environmental quality? River gone green? No fish? No children laughing in the swimming holes? Who wants that? Listen to wisdom, listen to the […]
Future of the Buffalo My wife and I have a place at Centerville south of Dardanelle. The Petit Jean River is less than a couple of miles away, and it runs dirty. I have asked some of the people that were raised in the area of Petit Jean River, and […]
Hog farm permit decision put off; more data sought By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: September 23, 2017 at 2:59 a.m. NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality sent a letter this week to the owners of C&H Hog Farms asking for more documentation of their facility and plans as the department continues […]
Greenwire Audit slams flagging EPA bid to curb farm emissions Sean Reilly, E&E News reporter Published: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 More than a decade after agreeing to keep tabs on emissions from large-scale animal feedlots, U.S. EPA isn’t close to getting the job done, the agency’s inspector general said in […]
Don’t forget hog farm With all the attention focused on the environmental tragedy in Texas, we in Arkansas are losing sight of the smaller but significant one here, C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed. I want to thank Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist Mike Masterson for keeping this issue alive and […]
More stepping up Buffalo battlers By Mike Masterson Posted: September 17, 2017 at 1:51 a.m. NWAOnline As the state of Arkansas waits for the Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) to complete its review of the permit renewal for the hog factory in our precious Buffalo National River watershed, a lot of […]
Fran Alexander: National treasures in peril Americans cannot afford erosion of park lands By Fran Alexander Posted: September 12, 2017 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline With our country up to its nose holes in water in the east and fires burning everything in their paths in the west, to say we are […]
NWAOnline After 42 years, Arkansas has not carried out plan to protect state waters from degradation Federal act’s quality standards to protect rivers, lakes run aground in Arkansas By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: September 10, 2017 at 3:43 a.m. Updated: September 10, 2017 at 3:43 a.m. Credit: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RYAN MCGEENEYSarah Clem More […]
Watch the full KY3-TV video: http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Hog-farm-battle-set-for-new-round-in-court-442748053.html A new courtroom battle is scheduled to start tomorrow over a large hog farm in Newton County, Arkansas. We recently visited with one of the women behind the five-year-long fight. She’s motivated to protect our nation’s first national river. Carol Bitting is known as one […]