News Releases from Headquarters EPA Releases Guidance on Reporting Air Emissions of Hazardous Substances from Animal Waste at Farms 10/26/2017 Contact Information: ([email protected]) (WASHINGTON) — Today, EPA is releasing guidance to assist farmers in reporting air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at farms. EPA is making this information […]
See 417 Magazine for full story with photos and sidebar Beneath the Surface: Controversy on the Buffalo National River Since C&H Hog Farms opened its 2,500-sow operation in the Buffalo National River watershed in 2013, concerns involving the river’s safety and quality have been on the rise. We headed south to investigate the […]
arkansasonline Hearings wrap up on Buffalo River watershed plan By Emily Walkenhorst JASPER — Arkansas officials and a contractor held their final meeting last week asking stakeholders for input on how they should write a plan to conserve the area surrounding the state’s most visited river. The contractor, Little Rock-based FTN […]
No hogs in watershed Governor Hutchinson, do the right thing. Put a stop to commercial hog farming in the Buffalo River watershed before it’s too late. This can be your legacy. The governor who saved the Buffalo again, or the governor who turned a blind eye and allowed the pollution of […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Overlooking the obvious By Mike Masterson Posted: October 14, 2017 at 2:17 a.m. NWAOnline Pretend your job as a volunteer watchdog (assigned by the governor) is to identify vehicles that continuously spew clouds of dangerous exhaust along the interstate. The state is particularly aware of one poison-emitting truck that […]
Failing the state This is environmental quality? By GLEN HOOKS SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Posted: October 13, 2017 at 2:38 a.m. NWAOnline Night is day. Up is down. War is peace. And the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is using our tax dollars to fight against cleaner air for our […]
Harrison farm puts free-range pork on menus, local tables By Nathan Owens Posted: October 1, 2017 at 2:07 a.m. NWA Democrat-Gazette HARRISON — The meatballs at Bentonville’s Oven & Tap restaurant, the pork chops at The Hive at the 21c Museum Hotel and the thinly sliced deli ham at Onyx Coffee […]
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 […]
JBS is the company which owns the contract with C&H Hog Farms. Read the full story here Brazil’s JBS S.A., the world’s largest meat-processing company, reported a sharp drop in net profits for the second quarter of 2017. According to the meat-industry website MeatingPlace.com, the company reported a drop of […]
Arkansasonline MASTERSON ONLINE: Ignoring Big Creek By Mike Masterson This article was published August 5, 2017 at 2:08 a.m. You’d think our state Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) eventually would overcome the need to play politics when it comes to the controversial hog factory it quickly and quietly allowed into the […]
Civil Eats Largest-Ever Gulf Dead Zone Reveals Stark Impacts of Industrial Agriculture A new survey of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico sounds alarm and points to extreme overuse of toxic chemicals from farms and CAFOs. BY SCOTT THILL | ENVIRONMENT 08.03.17 A hypoxic dead zone about the size of New […]
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