Don’t forget hog farm With all the attention focused on the environmental tragedy in Texas, we in Arkansas are losing sight of the smaller but significant one here, C&H Hog Farms in the Buffalo National River watershed. I want to thank Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist Mike Masterson for keeping this issue alive and […]
More stepping up Buffalo battlers By Mike Masterson Posted: September 17, 2017 at 1:51 a.m. NWAOnline As the state of Arkansas waits for the Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) to complete its review of the permit renewal for the hog factory in our precious Buffalo National River watershed, a lot of […]
Fran Alexander: National treasures in peril Americans cannot afford erosion of park lands By Fran Alexander Posted: September 12, 2017 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline With our country up to its nose holes in water in the east and fires burning everything in their paths in the west, to say we are […]
NWAOnline After 42 years, Arkansas has not carried out plan to protect state waters from degradation Federal act’s quality standards to protect rivers, lakes run aground in Arkansas By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: September 10, 2017 at 3:43 a.m. Updated: September 10, 2017 at 3:43 a.m. Credit: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RYAN MCGEENEYSarah Clem More […]
Watch the full KY3-TV video: http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Hog-farm-battle-set-for-new-round-in-court-442748053.html A new courtroom battle is scheduled to start tomorrow over a large hog farm in Newton County, Arkansas. We recently visited with one of the women behind the five-year-long fight. She’s motivated to protect our nation’s first national river. Carol Bitting is known as one […]
JBS is the company which owns the contract with C&H Hog Farms. Read the full story here Brazil’s JBS S.A., the world’s largest meat-processing company, reported a sharp drop in net profits for the second quarter of 2017. According to the meat-industry website MeatingPlace.com, the company reported a drop of […]
Arkansasonline MASTERSON ONLINE: Ignoring Big Creek By Mike Masterson This article was published August 5, 2017 at 2:08 a.m. You’d think our state Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) eventually would overcome the need to play politics when it comes to the controversial hog factory it quickly and quietly allowed into the […]
Civil Eats Largest-Ever Gulf Dead Zone Reveals Stark Impacts of Industrial Agriculture A new survey of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico sounds alarm and points to extreme overuse of toxic chemicals from farms and CAFOs. BY SCOTT THILL | ENVIRONMENT 08.03.17 A hypoxic dead zone about the size of New […]
Outdoor Industry Asso. Press Release Outdoor Recreation a Critical Player in Arkansas’ Economy Generating $9.7 Billion in Consumer Spending Annually and Directly Contributing 96,000 Jobs
Letter to the Editor Cotton not standing up for state water protection I cannot express my deep disappointment in Tom Cotton’s vote to roll back the Clean Water rule, and in his position on health care, leaving Arkansas’ rural families afraid for their futures. His decisions will make Arkansas poorer, […]
EPA at last approves impaired-waters list By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: July 30, 2017 at 3 a.m. NWAOnline The long-delayed federal approval of Arkansas’ list of impaired water bodies adds and removes numerous water bodies, allowing some to be deprioritized and others to be considered for more rigorous study for the first […]
NWAOnline Hog farm finds tolerance, disdain C&H, operating in watershed since 2013, seeks new permit EMILY WALKENHORSTARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MITCHELL PE MASILUN Sharon Pierce of Mount Judea stands over Big Creek near its confluence with the Buffalo River. Pierce, who taught the owners of C&H Hog Farms in school, said she […]
Arkansas Times EPA chief Pruitt in Arkansas pushing end to clean air and water rules Posted By Max Brantley on Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:05 PM EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was in Little Rock today and touted his effort to loosen clean air and water rules at a meeting at the Don and Randal Tyson Conference Center […]
Undisputed jewel Buffalo’s worth By Mike Masterson Posted: July 16, 2017 at 1:48 a.m NWAOnline My affection and concern for the welfare of our Buffalo National River, the first so designated in the country back in 1972, is redundantly apparent to readers. We have what no other state does in this […]
Can’t pick just one Memorable career By Mike Masterson Posted: July 1, 2017 at 2:11 a.m. I was asked the other day which among a career of stories I consider most memorable. That proved more difficult than expected once I began to reflect across 46 years. For instance, there was the […]
Arkansasonline Fran Alexander: This land is whose land? Congress, White House look to shed federal protections By Fran Alexander Posted: June 20, 2017 “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” — Wallace Stegner, 1983 If […]
Fecal Microbes Found In Kewaunee County Wells Raise Concerns About Dairy Manure, Septic Waste Tests Show Waste From Cattle Contaminates Majority of Wells, Especially After Rainfall Or Snowmelt Coburn Dukehart Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism June 8, 2017
Arkansasonline Buffalo Baptism by Mike Masterson June 3, 2017 Arkansas Democrat Gazette Jason Henson of Newton County told a civic club his C&H Hog Farm is operating as designed in the Buffalo National River watershed, and the Department of Environmental Quality (wheeze) makes sure it does. That’s the state agency […]
Farmers protect environment for future; Hog farm co-owner addresses questions By JAMES L. WHITE [email protected] Harrison Daily Times – Harrison, Arkansas Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7:00 am | Updated: 7:04 am, Tue May 30, 2017. Jason Henson, co-owner of C&H Hog Farm near Mt. Judea, recently spoke to the Harrison […]
Meat giant JBS says bribes greased path to explosive growth By Gerson Freitas Jr., Tatiana Freitas and Jeff Wilson Bloomberg News When beef tycoons Joesley and Wesley Batista sat down with Brazilian prosecutors last month and told them all they knew about the corruption scandal known as Carwash, they also […]