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Oil Spill
Mobile convention traffic, attractiveness boosted through 2015 by BP grant
funding
Press Register
By Kelli Dugan | kdugan@al.com
updated December 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM
MOBILE, Alabama – From barbecue enthusiasts to SWAT teams, Mobile's
convention business is booming both in terms of volume and long-term
bookings.
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/12/mobile_convention_traffic_attr.html
State News
MDEQ Encourages Mississippians to Remember the Environment this Holiday
Season
MPB
BY LAWAYNE CHILDREY | PUBLISHED 28 DEC 2012 04:47PM
Studies show that the amount of household trash swells significantly during
the holidays. That's why MDEQ is encouraging Mississippians to reuse and
recycle. MPB's Lawayne Childrey has more.
http://mpbonline.org/News/article/mdeq_encourages_mississippians_to_remember_the_environment_this_holiday_sea
MDEQ grants to help with solid waste enforcement
WTVA
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) -- Two north Mississippi government groups will
receive financial help to deal with illegal dumping.
http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/MDEQ-grants-to-help-with-solid-waste-enforcement/7Mqz0E-NNESQEBSf0hZdOw.cspx
Trial date changed in wetlands accusations in Hancock County
Sun Herald
By ROBIN FITZGERALD — rfitzgerald@sunherald.com
GULFPORT -- The trial date has been changed for a Fairhope, Ala., real
estate developer accused of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally
filling wetlands near Bay St. Louis.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/01/01/4382873/trial-date-changed-in-wetlands.html
DMR troubles may prompt legislation
Sun Herald
State Senate Ports and Marine Resources Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins,
R-Pascagoula, said he is going to draft bills to force better oversight of
DMR and other state agencies during the 2013 legislative session, which
will start in January.
http://www.sunherald.com/2012/12/22/4373643/dmr-troubles-may-prompt-legislation.html#storylink=misearch
Guice wants DMR top job, others want a search
Sun Herald
By PAUL HAMPTON and MICHAEL NEWSOM — Sun Herald
Though the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is the focus of
ongoing state and federal probes, its recently suspended chief appointed a
former state lawmaker as a deputy director in November and the new employee
hopes he'll be permanently appointed to replace his boss.
http://www.sunherald.com/2012/12/29/4380225/guice-wants-dmr-top-job-others.html#storylink=misearch
Mississippi power plant bets on new technology
Commercial Appeal
Sunday, December 30, 2012
DEKALB — In the woods of east Mississippi, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based
Southern Co. is pouring billions of dollars into construction of a power
plant that burns coal but would emit less carbon dioxide. It's a response
to looming federal limits on carbon emissions as regulators try to curtail
global warming.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/dec/30/mississippi-power-plant-bets-on-new-technology/?print=1
National News
EPA nominee would face uncertain path
The Hill
By Ben Geman - 12/30/12 06:00 AM ET
Senate Republicans are in no mood to allow easy confirmation of any
replacement for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa
Jackson, who announced Thursday that she'll leave the agency's top job
early in 2013.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/274851-epa-nominee-would-face-rocky-uncertain-senate-path
Exit of EPA boss a protest
NY Post
By JOSH MARGOLIN
EPA chief Lisa Jackson suddenly resigned last week because she was
convinced that President Obama is planning to green-light the controversial
Keystone XL oil pipeline, The Post has learned.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/exit_of_epa_boss_protest_9t4e0tKdNgiYPVoCgt1nBP
Oil Giants Heading to Trial in Water Pollution Lawsuit
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit
accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New
Hampshire is expected to present jurors with the most complex and
time-consuming trial in the state's history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/us/2-oil-giants-face-trial-in-new-hampshire-water-pollution-suit.html?ref=earth&_r=0&pagewanted=print
Plastic water bottles now illegal in Massachusetts town
Published January 02, 2013
Associated Press
aA new ban on the sales of
single-serving plastic water bottles has taken effect in Concord.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/02/plastic-water-bottles-now-illegal-in-massachusetts-town/?test=latestnews
Opinion
The EPA's Tainted Fracking Tests
The agency's groundwatercontamination finding is undermined by the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Op-ed, Wall Street Journal
By KEITH MAUCK
It has been four decades since Richard Nixon launched "Project
Independence" with the goal of making the United States energy
independent. All presidents since then have said they shared that goal,
yet never has it been within reach as it is today—thanks to domestic
natural gas and especially to the extraction method known as hydraulic
fracturing.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324001104578160983268581370.html
