Yearly Archives: 2018


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Additional conflict noted for pro-hog farm vote on Pollution Control and Ecology Commission – AR Times

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 […]


Commissioner still on C&H case – Democrat Gazette

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 […]


New Pollution Control commissioner ignores conflict and votes for hog farm – AR Times

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 […]


New comment period advised for hog farm

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

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. […]


ADEQ PIO fired – Arkansas Times

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 […]


A history lesson for BRWA supporters

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 […]


Fate of Buffalo River CAFO is in Question – Sierra Club Magazine

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 […]


MASTERSON ONLINE: Jury awards millions

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 […]


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