State ecology panel gives hog farm a reprieve By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: January 18, 2018 at 3:51 a.m.Updated: January 18, 2018 at 3:51 a.m. The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission issued on Wednesday a stay of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny C&H Hog Farms’ application to […]
Arkansas Times Pollution Control grants stay for continuation of hog farm operation Posted By Max Brantley on Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:06 PM Barry Haas reports from the meeting of the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission that it has granted a stay that will allow continued operation of the C and H hog farm at Mount […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Aftershocks Scant studies By Mike Masterson Posted: January 16, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline There have been plenty of aftershocks triggered by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s unexpected decision to deny C&H Hog Farms’ application for a revised operating permit. Many wondered on social media why the farrowing […]
Money isn’t everything By RICHARD MASON This article was published today at 1:57 a.m. Isn’t the overriding goal of a society to steadily improve the quality of life of its people? Everyone would agree with that statement, but the how-to’s are the sticky questions, and there are as many answers […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Permit denied Cynicism rises By Mike Masterson Posted: January 14, 2018 at 1:50 a.m. NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to reject a revised operating permit for C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed brought welcome surprise for many Arkansans. In appearing to finally move […]
Listen to the story here: Arkansas Public Media Embattled Buffalo River Industrial Swine Farm Denied New Operating Permit By JACQUELINE FROELICH The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality late Wednesday denied a new permit to C&H Hog Farms, the state’s largest industrial swine breeding facility to maintain operations in rural Newton County. […]
Arkansas hog farm seeks to stay state’s denial of operating permit Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline Attorneys for C&H Hog Farms have filed a request to stay the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s decision to deny the farm a new operating permit to replace its expired one and effectively shut down the […]
State denies hog farm’s revised permit request By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has denied C&H Hog Farms’ application for a new operating permit in the Buffalo National River’s watershed. The decision ends 643 days — just more than 21 months — of waiting since C&H applied […]
Hog farm’s request for new permit languishing By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline Sunday was the 640th day since C&H Hog Farms applied for a new permit for its Mount Judea concentrated animal feeding operation, and it remains unclear when the farmers will learn the outcome of their request. C&H, which abuts a […]
2 states’ river feud clearing up; phosphorus still high in the Illinois, but levels dropping By Emily Walkenhors Once an avid camper and canoeist, Ed Brocksmith no longer visits the Illinois River in east Oklahoma. These days Brocksmith fishes for smallmouth bass and sand bass at Horseshoe Bend, located on the […]
Raising of fowl increasing in parts of Arkansas; concerns arise about monitoring poultry litter By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: January 2, 2018 at 4:30 a.m. NWAOnline While poultry litter has been attributed as a source of pollution in the Illinois River in Northwest Arkansas and Oklahoma, it isn’t regulated outside that region […]