"The Department of Justice won't challenge a federal court ruling that the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration violated environmental laws in providing loans to a large hog farm in northwest Arkansas.

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in Arkansas on Friday granted a motion filed by DOJ to withdraw and voluntarily dismiss the appeal.

In December, Judge D. Price Marshall in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas ruled that the agencies shouldn't have provided $3.6 million in loans to C&H Hog Farms Inc., a 6,500-hog farm located near a tributary of the Buffalo National River."

Tiffany Stecker reports for Greenwire April 27, 2015. [2]