NWAonline Owners seek second hog farm permit by Emily Walkenhorst Co-owners of a Newton County hog farm have resubmitted their application to build a hog farm in Franklin County. Philip Campbell and Jason Henson, who co-own C&H Hog Farms with Richard Campbell, withdrew the application late last year after the Arkansas […]
NWAonline Bill seeks to diminish oversight of hog farms On Thursday, Senate Bill 550 passed the Arkansas Senate Agricultural Committee. A Farm Bureau agent sat next to the bill’s sponsor. This bill is meant to gut the regulations that got the C&H Hog Farm permit denied. This bill weakens existing […]
Must protect our river As someone who has witnessed firsthand the precipitous degradation of the Buffalo River, I took heart when the state agency that granted the initial permit finally recognized what the experts had said from the start: The geology of the watershed was far too porous, the transmission […]
Arkansasonline Bill would transfer Arkansas hog farms’ oversight Permit-process shield also proposed by Emily Walkenhorst The responsible party for issuing hog farm permits would change under a bill that cleared an Arkansas Senate committee Thursday. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality would no longer have the authority to issue — or […]
DCReport Trump Administration Pays Brazilian Meatpacker To Foul Arkansas River Bailout Money Intended for Hog Farmers Ends Up in Corporate Coffers By Sarah Okeson A Brazilian-owned meatpacking firm that buys pork from an Arkansas farm suspected of fouling our nation’s first national river would receive about $5 million from Trump’s bailout program for American […]
Take action to save the river by RICHARD MASON Special to the Democrat-Gazette | February 24, 2019 at 1:52 a.m. To The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee: Resign! You are doing more harm to the Buffalo National River by existing than you are by proposing watershed improvements. You are putting […]
Arkansasonline OPINION MASTERSON ONLINE: A misleading plan by Mike Masterson My Feb. 16 column described how C&H Hog Farms wrongly claimed in its Regulation 6 nutrient management plan that 80 percent of its phosphorus-laden hog waste would not be spread across the Buffalo National River and Big Creek watersheds. That naturally […]
Arkansasonline Justices reject request to stay hog-farm case Contempt-of-court warning against regulators allowed by Emily Walkenhorst | Arkansas’ highest court rejected Tuesday environmental regulators’ request to review and stay proceedings in a lower court related to a judge’s suggestion that the regulators are in contempt of his court. The Arkansas Department of […]
Baxter Bulletin State’s top court’s help sought in hog farm suit SCOTT LILES, Baxter Bulletin Published 9:24 p.m. CT Feb. 25, 2019 The Arkansas Supreme Court has been asked to review and stay all proceedings in a Newton County Circuit Court case involving a hog farm operating near the Buffalo […]
Arkansasonline OPINION Take Action to Save the Rivernby RICHARD MASON Special to the Democrat-Gazette | February 24, 2019 at 1:52 a.m. To The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee: Resign! You are doing more harm to the Buffalo National River by existing than you are by proposing watershed improvements. You are […]
Arkansasonline Justices asked to review hog farm caseIn filing, state regulators say circuit judge reached beyond his jurisdictionby Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas environmental regulators have asked the state’s highest court to review and stay all proceedings in a Newton County Circuit Court case regarding a hog farm within the Buffalo National River […]
Arkansasonline Hog farm files dismissal appeal Newton County operating permit denial at heart of case by Emily Walkenhorst A Newton County hog farm has filed its fourth case in circuit court in the past six months, this time appealing a dismissal of its appeal of its second operating permit denial. C&H […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette MASTERSON ONLINE: Phosphorus remains by Mike Masterson In the struggle to salvage what relative purity remains of our precious Buffalo National River, legal depositions from last year raise pertinent questions about the nutrient management plan C&H Hog Farms submitted to gain its original Regulation 6 General Permit from […]
Baxter Bulletin Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission dismisses hog farm permit denial appeal SCOTT LILES, Baxter BulletinPublished 8:00 p.m. CT Jan. 29, 2019 Trying to thread a legal and judicial needle, the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission on Friday dismissed a Newton County hog farm’s appeal of its […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Judge’s orders complicate state panel’s deliberations Emily Walkenhorst | Today at 2:13 a.m. | Updated January 26, 2019 at 2:13 a.m. An environmental regulatory commission addressed what one attorney called a […]
KTLO Contempt hearing in hog farm case back on docket By: Karen Hopper January 21, 2019 A hearing canceled earlier this month in the C&H Hog Farms saga due to a paperwork processing snafu is back on the Newton County Circuit Court docket. The purpose of the hearing is for […]
Nwaonline Panel to consider hog farm’s request by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission will meet Friday to hear a petition to stay environmental regulators’ denial of a new operating permit to C&H Hog Farms, among other issues. C&H Hog Farms owners have asked the commission to […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Watchdogs’ biasImpaired Buffaloby Mike Masterson | August 7, 2018 at 2:15 a.m. It’s troubled me for years that our Department of Environmental Quality (cough) relies on the Big Creek Research and Extension Team, with an obvious agricultural bent toward protecting C&H Hog Farms, to authenticate any contamination leaking from that […]
NWAonline Court-transfer snag holds up hog farm’s suit against Arkansas agencyby Emily Walkenhorst | The Pulaski County Circuit Court still has not received the files for a hog farm’s lawsuit against state environmental regulators nearly 50 days after a Newton County circuit judge ordered the transfer. Proceedings in the lawsuit, which alleges […]
GREG HARTON: Shhhh! Public doesn’t have to know, right? by Greg Harton | January 13, 2019 at 1:00 a.m. Here’s an idea: In government offices at every level, administrators should make it an assigned duty of a high-ranked employee to interject a single question into every discussion of projects or major policy […]