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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 Olesen, Alan Nye, Robert Cross and David Peterson. All are opponents of C&H's operating location in the Buffalo National River's watershed.

The parties have successfully intervened in two circuit court appeals and successfully intervened in C&H's appeal of its first permit denial last year.