9/10/14
State
Hancock Supervisors want right to oversee future household landfills
Sea Coast Echo
By Dwayne Bremer
Sep 9, 2014
Hancock County does not have a landfill certified to store household waste,
but if it does one day, the Hancock County Board of Supervisors wants to
have final say over who owns it and where it will be located.
http://www.seacoastecho.com/article_8176.shtml#.VA-RLUZjjKk
Biloxi will replace battered sewage lift stations
WLOX
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -Hurricane Katrina battered the eight sewage lift
stations along the beach front in the City of Biloxi. Since the storm, that
equipment has operated with temporary by-pass pumps and generators. Their
ongoing operation is critical to transport waste water to the sewage
treatment plants.
http://www.wlox.com/story/26490271/biloxi-will-replace-battered-sewage-lift-stations
Faulty Switch in Lift Station Causes Sewage Leak on Beach
WXXV
A faulty switch in the Brady Drive lift station caused a section of
coastline east of Beauvoir to Sadler Beach Drive to be closed Tuesday.
These lift stations have been problematic since Hurricane Katrina damaged
them, and the city is working to fix the issue.
http://www.wxxv25.com/news/local/story/Faulty-Switch-in-Lift-Station-Causes-Sewage-Leak/IIma2DnVEEy5DClFEvTWrw.cspx
MDEQ to test Chico Creek near Houston
WTVA
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) -- The Mississippi Department of Environmental
Quality will monitor the water quality in a Chickasaw County creek
Wednesday.
Officials say they will release a dye into Chico Creek near Houston.
http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/MDEQ-to-test-Chico-Creek-near-Houston/g69VWSDcckyaAzZBxAp2ow.cspx
Oil Spill
Local Seafood Industry Still Suffering from BP Oil Spill
WXXV
Four years later and our local seafood industry is still suffering because
of the BP oil spill. Some people and businesses have settled their claims
with the oil giant, but others are waiting for the outcome of an ongoing
court battle over economic and environmental losses in a New Orleans
district court.
http://www.wxxv25.com/news/local/story/Local-Seafood-Industry-Still-Suffering-from-BP/ligoffHS7EKJv7zVWecGbg.cspx
National
House passes bill to halt EPA water rule
The Hill
The House passed legislation Tuesday that would prevent the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing a proposed rule to define its
jurisdiction over bodies of water.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/217175-house-passes-bill-to-halt-epa-water-rule
Golf industry tees off on Obama's EPA
The Hill
The golf industry is pushing back on an Obama administration proposal that
deals with the government's jurisdiction over bodies over water.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/217112-epa-waters-rule-threatens-the-golf-course-industry-says
Feds move to prevent runaway oil trains
The Hill
The federal government is moving to prevent freight trains that are
carrying crude oil from being left unattended and rolling away.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/217079-feds-move-to-prevent-runaway-oil-trains
Power Plants Ask Federal Appeals Court To Review EPA Cooling Water Intake
Rule
Bloomberg
Sept. 8 — A coalition of power plants has joined Entergy Corp. in asking an
appellate court to review the Environmental Protection Agency's final rule
regulating cooling water intake structures at more than 1,000 factories and
power plants.
http://www.bna.com/power-plants-ask-n17179894615/
People near 'fracking' wells report health woes
USA Today
People living near natural-gas wells were more than twice as likely
to report upper-respiratory and skin problems than those farther
away, says a major study Wednesday on the potential health effects
of fracking.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/10/people-near-fracking-wells-health-symptoms/15337797/
UN says CO2 pollution levels at annual record high
AP
GENEVA (AP) — Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high
in 2013 as increasing levels of man-made pollution transform the planet,
the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20140909/eu-united-nations-global-warming-4e520ee949.html
Opinion
SUN HERALD | Editorial: Some bad news needs to travel very, very fast
Hopefully, not many public health and safety inspections are as dramatic as
one conducted a few years ago in Jackson County.
As the Sun Herald's Karen Nelson recently reported, "An EPA inspector,
during a tour of Mississippi Phosphates in 2009, walked through a puddle so
acidic it ate leather off the inspector's steel-toed boots."
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/09/09/5790345/sun-herald-editorial-some-bad.html?sp=/99/728/
BP in Louisiana remains an uncapped gusher of cash: James Varney
James Varney
The Times-Picayune
A federal court's finding last week that BP was "grossly negligent" with
the Deepwater Horizon blowout hardly made the oil behemoth the bad guy. It
already played that role.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2014/09/bp.html
