Thursday, April 25, 2024
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: December APC&EC Meeting Cancelled

The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission has cancelled its meeting scheduled for Friday, December 6, 2019.
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ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Illinois River Watershed Steering Committee Meeting Scheduled

The Illinois River Watershed Steering Committee will hold a meeting in the conference center at the Cherokee Hotel located at 2416 US 412, West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma.
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ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Listening Session Scheduled for ADEQ's Air Integrated Regulation Streamlining Project

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued the following announcement on Aug. 6.The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is announcing a listening session scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
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Little risk to bees from widely used insecticide, reports expert from the University of Arkansas.

A type of insecticide widely used to treat crops such as cotton and soy beans poses little risk to pollinators, including honey bees, an Arkansas-based researcher concluded.
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Arkansas AG joins lawsuit against EPA over lower ozone standards

The suit challenges the agency’s reduced National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone.
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University of Arkansas professor calls for EPA approval of neonicotinoid pesticides

A University of Arkansas department of entomology professor says neonicotinoids do not harm pollinators, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should not delay approving new applications for using the pesticides.
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EPA’s Waters of the U.S. rule slammed in committee hearing

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Sen. John Thune (R-SD) spoke out against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States rule at an Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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