State
Mississippi DEQ to host series of `Community Conversations', including one
in Ocean Springs
By Warren Kulo | GulfLive.com
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on August 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Ocean Springs will be the site of one of the
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality's 'Community Conversations'
-- forums designed to allow the public to discuss Gulf restoration
restoration priorities and opportunities for Mississippi.
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http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2014/08/mississippi_deq_to_host_series.html
Pascagoula's Cherokee Concerned Citizens plea for air quality help from
Jackson County
By April M. Havens | ahavens@al.com
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on August 18, 2014 at 11:43 AM, updated August 18, 2014 at 12:50 PM
(Embedded image moved to file: pic00288.gif)PASCAGOULA, Mississippi --
Pascagoula's Cherokee Concerned Citizens, a watchdog group that has been
documenting and raising concerns about pollution from nearby industries,
went before Jackson County supervisors this morning to plea for assistance.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2014/08/pascagoulas_cherokee_concerned.html
Oil Spill
Gulf oyster harvest has nose-dived since BP spill
Stacey Plaisance9:04 p.m. CDT August 15, 2014
HOPEDALE, La. – Fisherman Randy Slavich drags a clunky metal net through an
underwater oyster bed in Lake Machias, a brackish body opening into the
Gulf of Mexico. For generations, this has been a bountiful lake for
harvesting oysters, long before millions of gallons of oil spilled off
Louisiana's coast in 2010.
Associated Press writer Janet McConnaughey contributed to this report from
New Orleans.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/2014/08/15/hard-times-oysters/14138757/
Treasury takes step toward oil spill trust fund for allocating RESTORE Act
funds
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. Treasury has set out 97 pages of rules for
investing and allocating money that BP PLC and other defendants will pay in
Clean Water Act fines for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010.
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2014/08/treasury_takes_step_toward_oil.html
National
Study at Deepwater Horizon Spill Site Finds Key to Tracking Pollutants
Science consortium offers new information to predict how oil and other
pollutants move in the ocean
August 18, 2014
MIAMI – A new study of the ocean circulation patterns at the site of the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill reveals the significant role small-scale ocean
currents play in the spread of pollutants. The findings provide new
information to help predict the movements of oil and other pollutants in
the ocean. Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon
incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport
of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of
Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a
drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study
small-scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/news-events/press-releases/2014/study-at-deepwater-horizon-spill-site-finds-key-to-tracking-pollutants/
EPA launches criminal probe into Tyson discharge
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:45 pm
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal probe of
Tyson Foods in connection with the discharge of a feed supplement into
Monett's wastewater treatment plant.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/article_a90cf9f6-2742-11e4-918c-0019bb2963f4.html
