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 […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: The incomplete index by Mike Masterson | Today at 1:50 a.m. Thanks to some fine enterprise reporting by Emily Walkenhorst of this newspaper, we’ve learned the index created by academics at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to measure levels of potentially contaminating phosphorus leaking from the surfaces of agricultural […]
Critics: Arkansas Phosphorus Index faulty; it gauges fertilizer on fields but omits terrain factor, they say by Emily Walkenhorst | January 6, 2019 at 4:30 a.m. 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 […]
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 […]
Arkansasonline Judge orders Arkansas regulators to explain permit denial for hog farmby Emily Walkenhorst | Arkansas environmental regulators must appear before a judge next month to argue why they should not be held in contempt of court for denying C&H Hog Farms a new operating permit, according to court records. The Newton […]
Just to delay process It seems the hog factory farm’s appeal of the denial of a permit that would allow C&H to spread 2.5 millions of gallons of untreated hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed is simply a maneuver to delay the entire process until the Arkansas Legislature convenes […]