3.25.13
Oil Spill
Environmental groups suggest BP oil money could preserve Skyway lands
Bradenton Herald
By SARA KENNEDY — skennedy@bradenton.com
TERRA CEIA -- A project to develop property along the Sunshine Skyway
Bridge's southern end remains under consideration, but huge monetary
windfalls coming to Florida as a result of the BP oil spill may change the
scenario.
http://www.bradenton.com/2013/03/24/4451026/environmental-groups-suggest-bp.html
State News
D'Iberville ordered repay part of $3M BP grant
Sun Herald
MDEQ: City must give back $1.4M awarded for building of Ocean Expo
By MARY PEREZ — meperez@sunherald.com
D'Iberville has 30 days to return $1.4 million of a BP grant and may be
required to repay $945,000 more if the city can't provide the documentation
requested by the state Department of Environmental Quality.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/22/4546354/mdeq-diberville-must-repay-most.html
DMR required no formal bids for $5.8 million in reef work
Sun Herald
By ANITA LEE and PAUL HAMPTON — Sun Herald
BILOXI -- A nonprofit sports fishing group founded in the year of Camille,
1969, took on the task of building artificial reefs that attracted red
snapper to the muddy water bottoms off Mississippi's shore.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/23/4548215/dmr-required-no-formal-bids-for.html
Alabama's reefs partnership holds cost down and attracts fish
Sun Herald
By PAUL HAMPTON — jphampton@sunherald.com
In the 1950s, there weren't many red snapper off the Alabama coast.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/23/4548211/alabamas-reefs-partnership-holds.html
Bill gives Mississippi authority for Cat Island purchase
Sun Herald
By MICHAEL NEWSOM — mmnewsom@sunherald.com
State officials are hoping to buy part of Cat Island for conservation and
public use and a bill headed to Gov. Phil Bryant's desk gives them the
authority to negotiate for it.
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/03/22/4546600/bill-gives-mississippi-authority.html
Rep. Jessica Upshaw's death apparent suicide
Coast lawmaker's body found in former legislator's Mendenhall home
Clarion Ledger
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials are looking into the death of
state Rep. Jessica Upshaw, who was found at a residence in Simpson County
on Sunday.
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130325/NEWS01/303250030/Rep-Jessica-Upshaw-s-death-apparent-suicide
National News
States, feds to meet in Louisville on Gulf Dead Zone challenges
Louisville Courier Journal
A task force charged with shrinking the size of a massive oxygen-depleted
dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico meets in Louisville next month.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013303230163
Beekeepers Sue EPA Over Pesticide Approvals
Bloomberg
By Avery Fellow - Mar 22, 2013
Bloomberg BNA -- A coalition of beekeepers, environmental groups, and
consumer groups filed a lawsuit March 21 against the Environmental
Protection Agency for approving the registration of pesticides that the
groups claim harm honey bees and other pollinators.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2013-03-22/beekeepers-sue-epa-over-pesticide-approvals.html
How will experts measure toxic exposure in NJ town? Toenail clippings
By Associated Press, Published: March 24
GARFIELD, N.J. — The neighborhood looks exceedingly normal: single-family
homes and apartment buildings packed together, dogs barking from
postage-stamp-size lawns, parents hustling down narrow sidewalks to fetch
their children from school. But something with very dangerous potential
lies below the surface, officials say.
The residents' toenails will provide confirmation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-will-experts-measure-toxic-exposure-in-nj-town-toenail-clippings/2013/03/24/0fa05552-948f-11e2-95ca-dd43e7ffee9c_story.html
SS Badger to stop dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan in 2 years under deal
reached with EPA
By Associated Press, Published: March 22
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The nation's last operating coal-fired ferryboat
would stop dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan within two years under a
deal with federal regulators announced Friday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ss-badger-to-stop-dumping-coal-ash-into-lake-michigan-in-2-years-under-deal-reached-with-epa/2013/03/22/c699c740-936b-11e2-8e33-9cc6c739d012_story.html
Opinion
We must get BP settlement structure right
The Hill
By Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) - 03/22/13 02:15 PM ET
Tragically, 11 men lost their lives on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater
Horizon oil platform burst into flames. We continued to feel the tragic
effects of that across southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast as the oil
flowed from the well in astounding quantities for months, and significant
environmental damage and economic devastation followed.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-a-environment/289877-we-must-get-bp-settlement-structure-right
