Associated Press A federal jury is punishing the world’s largest pork producer with a $25 million verdict after jurors decided that two neighbors of a hog farm suffered unreasonable nuisances from flies, buzzards and rumbling trucks tied to an industrial-scale hog grower. June 29, 2018 Jurors Slap Pork Giant Smithfield […]
Arkansasonline State regulators: Public notice on hog farm permit unneeded By Emily Walkenhorst This article was published today at 4:30 a.m. State environmental regulators did not need to issue a proposed decision to deny a new operating permit to a hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed, the regulators argued […]
Arkansas Times News » Arkansas Reporter ADEQ PIO fired After ex-employee’s comment critical of agency posted. by Benjamin Hardy June 28, 2018 On May 8, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality fired its public information officer, Kelly Robinson. A week earlier, Robinson’s personnel file contained no negative evaluations or disciplinary action over the […]
Small Arkansas town yearning to dim the lights; LED shift holds jarring cost By Bill Bowden Posted: June 17, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. Bill BowdenGilbert Mayor Mitch Mortvedt stands in front of a town streetlight as the high-pressure sodium lamp flickers on. Bruce McMath, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of the […]
The following article was published in the Arkansas Times on August 15, 2013 and provides an historical perspective on how we got here. Hog farm near the Buffalo River stirs controversy Critics say farm was carelessly approved and threatens watershed and community. Farmers say they followed law and permit protects […]
NWAonline Arkansas hog farm argues agency erred in decision process By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: June 7, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. Attorneys for a hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed have filed a motion for summary judgment in their appeal of environmental regulators’ denial of the farm’s new permit application. If […]