4.16.2014
Oil Spill
D'head leading Restore Act team
Sea Coast Echo
By Dwayne Bremer
The city of Diamondhead wants to get its part of upcoming Restore Act
funding and has invited other local entities to join it.
http://www.seacoastecho.com/article_7839.shtml#.U06IUvk7tcZ
Coast Guard, BP end 'active cleanup' of Louisiana's coast, nearly four
years after 2010 spill
Manuel Torres
The Times-Picayune
April 15, 2014 at 10:11 PM
BP on Tuesday said it has ended its "active cleanup" of Louisiana's coast,
nearly four years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill
soiled marshes and coastal areas across the state and the Gulf region.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/04/bp_ends_active_cleanup_of_loui.html#incart_river
3 Louisiana congressmen say Obama administration too slow to release BP oil
spill recovery funds
Bruce Alpert
Times-Picayune
April 15, 2014 at 5:37 PM
WASHINGTON -- Three Louisiana Republicans are accusing the Obama
administration of taking too much time to develop rules for the release of
recovery funds from the 2010 BP oil spill.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/3_louisiana_congressmen_say_ob.html#incart_river
BP Oil Spill -- 4 Years Later In Barataria Bay
WWNO
As Sunday's four-year anniversary approaches of the BP oil spill,
environmental groups headed out into one of the areas most heavily oiled in
the disaster. There, they looked at what effects that oil could be having
on wetlands, and inspected the latest damage from coastal erosion, ongoing
before and after the spill. Eileen Fleming reports on what they found.
http://wwno.org/post/bp-oil-spill-4-years-later-barataria-bay
BP disputes wildlife reports, trashes media tour of site
TriParish Times
By JOHN DeSANTIS
April 15, 2014 1:41 pm
BP came out swinging at the National Wildlife Federation for its report on
Gulf species allegedly damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and has
taken strong issue with an environmental tour last week that the group
sponsored in Barataria Bay.
http://www.tri-parishtimes.com/news/article_9e2b40a6-c4cd-11e3-a1ea-001a4bcf887a.html
State
Simpson County Dam Bursts
WJTV
By Andrew Harrison
The Neely Lake Dam in Simpson County has burst. MEMA officials say there
is a breach of between 40 and 50 feet in the dam.
http://www.wjtv.com/story/25260689/simpson-county-dam-bursts
Seabees sharing details on landfill cleanup with residents
Sun Herald
BY ANITA LEE
GULFPORT -- Restoration of old landfills continues at the Naval
Construction Battalion Center, with a meeting scheduled Thursday evening to
tell residents about proposed cleanup of one site and construction almost
finished at a second.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/04/15/5499314/seabees-sharing-details-on-landfill.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1
Entergy gives $500K grant to The Nature Conservancy
by MBJ Staff
Published: April 15,2014
NEW ORLEANS — Environmental innovators in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas are implementing solutions for the management of the mid-South's
natural and environmental resources through a $500,000 grant from Entergy
Corporation to The Nature Conservancy.
http://msbusiness.com/blog/2014/04/15/entergy-gives-500k-grant-nature-conservancy/
Southern Company agrees to share Kemper County power research with Chinese
firm
The Associated Press
April 15, 2014 at 2:06 PM
JACKSON, Mississippi -- Southern Co. has signed a deal with a state-owned
Chinese coal and energy company to help develop coal technologies, based in
part on the coal gasification and carbon capture technology that Southern
subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. is deploying at the $5 billion Kemper
County power plant.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-business/2014/04/southern_company_agrees_to_sha.html#incart_river
National
EPA Power Plant Mercury Rule Upheld by U.S. Appeals Court (2)
Bloomberg
By Andrew Zajac April 15, 2014
Duke Energy Corp. (DUK:US), Southern Co. (SO:US) and other energy companies
must abide by federal limits on mercury and additional power-plant
pollutants, a U.S. court said, upholding a rule regulators say will save
lives and the industry claims was illegally drafted.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-15/epa-mercury-rule-for-power-plants-upheld-by-u-dot-s-dot-appeals-court
Appeals court upholds EPA emission standards
By Pete Yost
The Associated Press
Washington • A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental
Protection Agency's emission standards for hazardous air pollutants from
coal- and oil-fired power plants.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/57822285-68/epa-court-standards-appeals.html.csp
EPA moves toward possible methane emission rules
The Hill
By Timothy Cama
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a series of technical
white papers Tuesday about sources of methane emissions, asking the public
to comment on the research to inform EPA's efforts to reduce emissions of
methane, which is the main component of natural gas.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/203565-epa-seeks-input-on-methane-research
EPA: Greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2012
The Hill
By Timothy Cama
Greenhouse gas emissions fell in the United States by 3.4 percent in 2012
from the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/203600-epa-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell-in-2012
GAO audit finds lack of data on environmental reviews
The Hill
By Timothy Cama
Federal agencies' practices regarding their obligations under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are inconsistent, making it difficult to
analyze government-wide impacts of the environmental review process, the
Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in a Tuesday report.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/203610-gao-audit-finds-lack-of-data-on-environmental-reviews
Petroleum group says EPA may flip-flop on ethanol mandate
The Hill
By Laura Barron-Lopez
A top petroleum group is worried the Environmental Protection Agency will
flip on the proposed levels it released late last year for the amount of
ethanol and other biofuels refiners must blend into the nation's fuel
supply.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/203619-petroleum-group-says-epa-may-backtrack-on-renewable-fuel-mandate
