Arkansas Times Additional conflict noted for pro-hog farm vote on Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Posted By Max Brantley on Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:44 AM The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today wrote its story about a topic we reported Friday — the decision by new Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Mike Freeze of Keo to vote in favor of a permit for […]
Arkansasonline Commissioner still on C&H case Recusal over earlier remarks unneccessary, panel decides By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 29, 2018 at 3:29 a.m. An Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission member can continue to participate in hearings about C&H Hog Farms’ appeal of its permit denial after writing public comments in […]
Arkansasonline Buffalo River visitors warned against algae By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 28, 2018 at 3:52 a.m. Visitors to the Buffalo National River should watch out for algae on the river that has the potential to produce cyanotoxins, the National Park Service said in a news release Friday. Cyanotoxins are naturally […]
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Part of Buffalo River, Big Creek on Arkansas’ impaired list By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 27, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. The country’s first national river is impaired, according to Arkansas environmental regulators. The Buffalo National River and Big Creek, a nearly 19-mile tributary of the river, are […]
Arkansas Times New Pollution Control commissioner ignores conflict and votes for hog farm Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:35 PM The news from the Buffalo River continues to be bad, between increasing algae and pollution problems and Governor Hutchinson’s overt corporate politicking in government agencies. The Farm Bureau now effectively has a designated seat on the Pollution Control […]
KATV ADEQ report lists Arkansas waterways as “impaired”, including portions of Buffalo River LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — It’s a list the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is mandated to submit to the EPA every two years, in accordance with the federal Clean Waters Act – a list that compiles water quality […]
Listen: KUAF Radio Park Service Investigates Algae on Buffalo National River By JACQUELINE FROELICH • JUL 19, 2018 Public complaints about a growing number of algal blooms on the Buffalo National River have spurred the National Park Service to investigate. Park Service spokesperson Caven Clark says visitors are welcome to safely […]
Group seeks to buy last 1,600 feet for hiking trail along Buffalo River path in Arkansas By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 16, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. A conservation group wants to buy the final tract of land needed to finish a hiking trail that would stretch about 100 miles along the […]
New comment period advised for hog farm By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 11, 2018 at 1:08 a.m. A judge recommended to environmental regulators Tuesday a permit application for a hog farm within the Buffalo River watershed should go back out for public notice and comment after it was denied earlier this […]
Back to Buffalo Regulatory rigmarole By Mike Masterson Posted: July 8, 2018 at 1:50 a.m Attorneys for C&H Hog Farms (badly misplaced in the Buffalo National River watershed) are herding every pig-in-a-poke possible toward the state’s Pollution Control and Ecology Commission in hopes of overturning their client’s Regulation 5 permit denial. […]
Public Notice Resource Center Notice Again at Issue in Battle Over Arkansas Hog Farm IDecember 2012, residents of Newton County, Arkansas were shocked to learn that the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) had approved a permit to operate a hog farm on the banks of Big Creek, a tributary […]
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 […]
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 […]