Arkansasonline Environmental groups can intervene in C&H Hog Farms’ appeal of its permit denial, a judge ruled Friday. Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Administrative Law Judge Charles Moulton issued the order. The intervenors are the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, the Arkansas Canoe Club, the Ozark Society, Gordon Watkins, Marti […]

Arkansasonline Judge cancels order to summon officials Arkansas environmental regulators won’t have to appear in court Wednesday as scheduled to argue why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of a Newton County Circuit Court order. Circuit Judge John Putman quashed his order for the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to […]

Arkansasonline Critics: Arkansas Phosphorus Index faulty; it gauges fertilizer on fields but omits terrain factor, they say by Emily Walkenhorst | January 6, 2019 The calculation used to determine how much fertilizer farmers can apply to their crops in Arkansas doesn’t take into account the potential of the fertilizer leaching […]