For that stinkin’ bill I’d like to propose a rider to the bill sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw and Sen. Gary Stubblefield that would limit public comment on environmental permits on large-scale hog farms like the one C&H Hog Farms is operating in the Buffalo River watershed. That rider would […]
Animal farm bills advance at state Capitol By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: March 15, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline Thomas Metthe Credit: Arkansas Democrat-GazetteState Sen. Joyce Elliott gestures Wednesday that she would like to speak against Senate Bill 8, a measure to amend a state law concerning modification and review of permits […]
Listen to the story here: Arkansas Public Media Bill To Limit Challenges To Hog Farms Awaits Final Vote By SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK/ ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA • MAR 15, 2018 A bill is up for vote by the general assembly that would protect hog farmers from lawsuits for certain environmental issues once their waste […]
Listen to KUAF Arkansas Legislature Relaxing State Animal Waste Agri Permitting By JACQUELINE FROELICH • MAR 15, 2018 The fate of C&H Hog Farms, a controversial industrial swine breeding facility federally permitted five years ago to operate six miles upstream of the Buffalo National River, was at the center of an extraordinary Arkansas legislative […]