Oil Spill
BP executive expected to be first oil spill trial witness
Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7:15 AM Updated: Wednesday,
January 25, 2012, 7:20 AM
By The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — A BP executive is expected to be the first witness to testify
at a trial next month designed to identify the causes of a deadly rig
explosion that spawned a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
http://blog.al.com/wire/2012/01/bp_executive_expected_to_be_fi.html
BP rejects City of Gulfport oil spill claim
WLOX
BP has rejected the City of Gulfport's claim for oil spill damages.
Gulfport was seeking nearly $12 million in lost tax revenue and community
damages from the Deepwater Horizon accident.
http://www.wlox.com/story/16592215/bp-rejects-city-of-gulfport-oil-spill-claim
Seafood board may use BP cash to rename N.O. arena
AP
NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board might use
some of the $30 million it got from BP PLC to buy naming rights for the New
Orleans Arena, where the NBA's Hornets play.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20120124/NEWS01/120124008/Seafood-board-may-use-BP-cash-rename-N-O-arena
State News
Public meetings scheduled on Mississippi offshore oil, gas leasing
Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7:17 AM
By Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press
GAUTIER, Mississippi -- Public meetings on what seismic surveying and
offshore oil and gas leasing will mean for Mississippi are scheduled
Thursday in Jackson and Friday in Gautier.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/01/public_meetings_scheduled_on_m.html
Proper disposal
By Randy Hammons
Enterprise-Journal
Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 3:00 pm
A customer's simple question to a local pharmacist some two years ago was
the impetus of legislation soon to be presented in the Mississippi
Legislature.
Rep. Sam Mims V, R-McComb, is working on a bill that would set up
prescription drug collection sites at local law enforcement offices,
allowing people to drop off their expired prescription medications, no
questions asked. The drugs would then be transported to the Mississippi
Bureau of Narcotics office in Jackson, where they would be incinerated.
http://www.enterprise-journal.com/news/article_3dc54a10-45e8-11e1-baa4-0019bb2963f4.html
National News
Ex-chiefs: EPA a tougher sell now
Politico
By: Erica Martinson
January 24, 2012 11:12 PM EST
The Environmental Protection Agency may be a victim of its own success,
making it difficult to build public support for pollution controls that are
health based but more abstract, Republican former administrators said
Monday.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71908.html
Emissions regulations still far off
Politico
By: Erica Martinson
January 24, 2012 11:11 PM EST
As environmentalists check items off their list of Obama administration
victories before this year's election, one huge item still lingers: curbing
greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71909.html
Obama touts EPA effort to exempt milk from oil-spill rules
The Hill
By Andrew Restuccia - 01/24/12 10:00 PM ET
President Obama touted Tuesday his administration's decision to exempt milk
from broader oil-spill prevention rules, arguing that he is working to
eliminate regulations that "don't make sense."
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/206337-obama-touts-epa-effort-to-exempt-milk-from-oil-spill-rules
