Governor Kristi Noem’s burial of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Department of Agriculture means fewer environmental inspectors available to check our…
Tag: CAFOs
Predictably, the pro-corporate Farm Bureau has overcome its initial hesitance and now supports Governor Kristi Noem’s hasty, surprise move to bury the Department of Environment…
Oh yeah, CAFOs: South Dakota continues to stink up the joint with county bribes for giant concentrated animal feeding operations. As Bob Mercer reports, last…
While Kristi didn’t get her VP nod, she did score a coup here at home by getting rid of the Department of Environment and Natural…
Governor Kristi Noem just used the coronavirus as an excuse to suspend environmental protections around factory hog farms. In Executive Order 2020-17, her fourteenth executive…
Is South Dakota’s business model pure crap? We threaten, bribe, and finally just dissolve the power of counties to promote factory feedlots to churn out…
Poop is power, says California’s Brightmark Energy, which plans to come from San Francisco to South Dakota to turn factory feedlot manure into natural gas:…
Gregory-area rancher Nancy Johnson Wirsing wrote last month about the apparent journalistic tilt toward pro-CAFO corporate propaganda. This month she writes about the hazards of…
You’ve seen my brief stab at explaining the ills of Senate Bill 157, Governor Kristi Noem’s factory feedlot “streamlining” bill. Now let’s hear from a…