Arkansas Business Fouling a National River Is Bad for Business (Vic Snyder & Ed Bethune Commentary) by Ed Bethune and Vic Snyder on Monday, Apr. 27, 2015 12:00 am What is the economic value of a public image? Paying $1.4 million for a 30-second 2015 Super Bowl commercial seems outrageous, […]
National Parks TravelerJustice Department Drops Its Appeal On Buffalo National River Hog Farm CaseSubmitted by NPT Staff on April 27, 2015 – 1:10am A decision by the Department of Justice to drop its appeal in a case involving a hog farm upstream of the Buffalo National River means the Farm Service Agency and […]
GreenwireIwin for greens, DOJ withdraws appeal in CAFO case Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter Published: Monday, April 27, 2015 The Department of Justice won’t challenge a federal court ruling that the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration violated environmental laws in providing loans to a large hog farm […]
Democrat Gazette U.S. dismisses appeal of ruling on hog-farm environmental study This article was published today at 3:02 a.m. By Emily Walkenhorst The federal agencies ordered by a judge to redo environmental assessments of C&H Hog Farms in Mount Judea had their subsequent appeal of the decision dismissed Friday. The U.S. […]
Democrat Gazette Buffalo basin’s hog-farm ban extended 3rd 180-day freeze OK’d; bid for a permanent one to get governor’s input By Emily Walkenhorst This article was published today at 3:26 a.m. Updated April 24, 2015 at 10:03 p.m. The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission approved a third 180-day ban on […]
Moratorium on hog farm permits renewed By John LyonArkansas News Bureaujlyon@arkansasnews.com NORTH LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission voted Friday to approve a third 180-day moratorium on issuing hog farm permits in the Buffalo River watershed. A motion to approve the moratorium carried in a […]
Harrison Daily Times Hog farm loans need new assessments; DOJ withdraws appeal of court decision Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 4:30 pm | Staff Report news@harrisondaily.com | 0 comments LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Department of Justice has decided to drop its challenge of a federal court ruling that enjoined more than $3 million in […]
Appeal dropped in Buffalo River hog lawsuit 4/24/2015 8:00 PMBy Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal agencies will have a year to do a new environmental assessment of a hog farm near the Buffalo National River after a federal appeals court’s ruling Friday. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Arkansas Times Justice Department drops appeal of Buffalo River hog farm ruling Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM Earth Justice announces that the federal Justice Department has dropped the appeal of a court ruling that federal agencies had failed to do sufficient environmental assessments before providing federal loan guarantees for […]
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission met this morning and enacted a renewed 180-day moratorium on permitting new medium or large animal feeding operations in the Buffalo River Watershed. This was the third time the Commission has voted to place a temporary ban on any new industrial hog operations […]
KUAR Radio Moratorium On New Industrial Hog Farms Near Buffalo River Extended Again By JACOB KAUFFMAN • A 180-day moratorium on new concentrated animal feeding operations – or CAFOs – in the Buffalo River Watershed is now in effect, for the third time. The Arkansas Pollution and Ecology Commission renewed the temporary […]
Arkansas Online Hog-farm ban’s renewal on commission’s agenda By Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission on Friday will consider a third 180-day ban on new medium and large hog farms in the Buffalo River watershed, two days after the governor issued a statement in […]
Arkansas Times Gov. Hutchinson favors continued moratorium on new hog farms in Buffalo watershed Posted By Max Brantley on Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:48 PM Gov. Asa Hutchinson today said he supports reinstating a 180-day moratorium on new permits for medium and large-scale animal feeding operations in the Buffalo River watershed. His statement: “I think the […]
KUAF Radio Listen to this 7-minute interview here. New Film Captures Buffalo River CAFO Controversy By JACQUELINE FROELICH As a young adult, NOAA fisheries biologist and Arkansas native, Teresa Turk, camped along Big Creek, a tributary to the Buffalo National River. So when she learned that a new Confined Animal Feeding […]
Harrison Daily Times ADEQ holds hearing on hog farm request; Modification to waste storage ponds By DAVID HOLSTED davidh@harrisondaily.com |0 comments JASPER — Several dozen people, supporters and opponents alike, were in attendance at the Jasper School on April 20 for a hearing concerning the C&H Hog Farm. The 50-minute, orderly hearing was […]
Baxter Bulletin (read the story with images here) Hog farm wants to modify operating permit Thomas Garrett, sgarrett@baxterbulletin.com5:10 p.m. CDT April 21, 2015 C&H Hog Farm, located near the Buffalo National River in Mount Judea, wants to apply more wastewater on its land JASPER – A request to modify C&H […]
KY3 News Eric Hilt, ehilt@schurz.comPOSTED: 10:34 PM CDT Apr 20, 2015 JASPER, Ark. – A controversial hog farm near the Buffalo National River is hoping to change how it deals with some waste from its operation, but people living nearby say they don’t want to chance any changes to the C&H hog farm. In the past, public […]
Theculturetrip.com The 10 Most Beautiful Towns in Arkansas Jasper Located in the heart of Newton County, Jasper is a tiny, scenic town nestled in the Ozark Mountains not far from the Buffalo National River – the first waterway in the US to be designated national river status. Surrounded by breathtaking […]
Arkansas Online Godspeed, Uncle John By Mike Masterson Across his 26 years as the congressman for the Third District, John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison earned a reputation for helping constituents as well as every Arkansan who needed it. No wonder so many of the influential and ordinary folks loved and […]
KY3 TV News SPRINGDALE, Ark. –Former Republican U.S. Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt died Wednesday at age 92 at Regency Hospital. His son, John Arthur Hammerschmidt, announced his death. In the 1960s, Hammerschmidt was chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, which was then a predominately Democratic state. He also operated a […]