Sierra Club Magazine Fate of Buffalo River CAFO is in Question as Water Impacts Accelerate BY JONATHAN HAHN | MAY 20 2018 Defenders of Arkansas’ Buffalo River, the first designated “national river” in the United States, fear that soil and water contamination from an industrial-scale hog farm is accelerating as the fight over […]
Arkansas Times Fundraiser in Conway for the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance Posted By David Ramsey on Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:02 PM The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, the nonprofit that has been at the front lines of the ongoing fight against the placement of a large hog harm five miles upstream from the Buffalo National River, […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Jury awards millions By Mike Masterson Posted: May 5, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. Perhaps you read last week about a North Carolina jury awarding $50.7 million to long-suffering residents living around an enormous facility known as Kinlaw Farm. It is a large-scale hog factory in Bladen County that contracts […]
Arkansasonline Hog farm’s appeal claims agency’s process lax By Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas environmental officials did not sufficiently inform C&H Hog Farms’ owners or the public about its permitting process or decision-making about the farm, the farmers’ attorney argued in a court hearing Monday. But the state didn’t have to do what […]
Save wild turtles Commercial harvest poses peril By Debbie Doss and Elise Bennett Special to the Democrat-Gazette Posted: May 3, 2018 at 2:51 a.m. Along the wild waterways of Arkansas, turtles were once so abundant you never knew what kind you’d see around the next bend. But lately it often […]
Owners say state didn’t inform them of plans; Officials say state didn’t have to Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas environmental officials did not sufficiently inform C&H Hog Farms or the public about its permitting process or decision-making about the farm, the farmers’ attorney argued in a court hearing Monday. But the state […]