Federal loan for Ark. hog farm violated NEPA, judge rules

摘要

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration violated environmental laws by providing $3.6 million in federal loans to a sprawling hog farm in northwest Arkansas. Judge D. Price Marshall in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas faulted the agencies for providing loans to C&H Hog Farms Inc., whose 6,500 swine are near a tributary of the Buffalo National River.