Listen to the story here: Arkansas Public Media Embattled Buffalo River Industrial Swine Farm Denied New Operating Permit By JACQUELINE FROELICH The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality late Wednesday denied a new permit to C&H Hog Farms, the state’s largest industrial swine breeding facility to maintain operations in rural Newton County. […]
Arkansas hog farm seeks to stay state’s denial of operating permit Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline Attorneys for C&H Hog Farms have filed a request to stay the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny the farm a new operating permit to replace its expired one and effectively shut down the […]
State denies hog farm’s revised permit request By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has denied C&H Hog Farms’ application for a new operating permit in the Buffalo National River’s watershed. The decision ends 643 days — just more than 21 months — of waiting since C&H applied […]