For 16 years, the Buffalo National River has denied explorers access to Arkansas’s longest cave and hundreds of others. Some ...

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality studies found an increase in pathogens like E. coli, associated with fecal waste, in the Buffalo River that by 2018 exceeded water quality criteria.

SB 84 would prohibit a state agency from instituting a moratorium on the issuance of permits in a watershed, including the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A bill introduced in the Arkansas ... permits along the Buffalo River watershed. The state currently maintains a temporary moratorium on issuing new permits for medium ...

A bill introduced in the Arkansas legislature would end the state’s ability to hold moratoriums on permits along the Buffalo River and other watersheds.

Arkansas lawmakers have filed a bill that would prohibit moratoriums on the issuance of permits in watersheds and other bodies of water that opponents say is an ...

The language specifically references the Buffalo River Watershed. An exception is provided if the agency obtains approval from the Arkansas Legislative Council. Language in the Bill also specifies ...

A bill that would eliminate an existing moratorium on swine farms in the Buffalo River ... watershed-specific permit moratoriums without legislative council approval was filed Tuesday in the ...

Marti Olesen has now driven the five-hour round trip from Ponca to Little Rock three times in recent weeks with the intention to learn about lawmakers’ plans for the Buffalo River watershed.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A bill introduced in the Arkansas legislature ... confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) permits along the Buffalo River watershed. The state currently maintains a temporary ...