State
Lumberton board to apply for Hub Zone program
Hattiesburg American
The Lumberton Board of Aldermen met Tuesday. All aldermen were
present.
•The order to pay Richard Rose for the services rendered in helping
to prepare the budget and enable him to write a letter to the
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality — in regards to a
DEQ loan — was less amiable. The votes on both motions were 3-2.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/lumberton/2015/01/10/bogle-lumberton-hub-zone/21570159/
KiOR says Miss. seeks to destroy it in court ploy
AP
By JEFF AMY
Published: Jan 10, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bankrupt biofuel maker KiOR and controlling
shareholder Vinod Khosla say the state of Mississippi is using legal
tactics in an attempt to squeeze money from the company.
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=BfoCa2iH
Entergy Makes Plans for Solar Farm
Daily Leader
http://www.dailyleader.com/2015/01/11/entergy-makes-plans-for-solar-farm/
Projects planned for coming cleanup day
Bolivar Commercial
by Courtney Warren
01.09.15 - 04:15 pm
The 2014 Great American Cleanup Kickoff, with Keep Cleveland Beautiful, was
such a success that several 2015 clean up projects is in the planning
stages.
http://www.bolivarcom.com/view/full_story/26345101/article-Projects-planned-for-coming-cleanup-day?instance=homefirstleft
Oil Spill
U.S. Court Narrowly Rejects BP Rehearing
Appeals Panel Votes 7-6 Against a Reconsideration
Associated Press
Jan. 9, 2015 9:00 p.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS—A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its 2014
ruling that BPcannot avoid federal penalties for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico
oil spill by blaming another company's failed equipment.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-court-narrowly-rejects-bp-rehearing-1420855237
Regional
Power plant officials: Coal ash ponds are safe, regularly inspected
By Daniel Gaddy
Anniston Star
January 11, 2015 12:21 am
Energy officials said last month waste storage sites at Alabama's nine
coal-fired power plants are safe, despite years-old assessments that point
to several minor deficiencies and found one of them could endanger human
life if it fails.
http://www.annistonstar.com/news/article_3bc23b2e-995a-11e4-9e67-7b8c98e1c7ca.html
Opposition grows to EPA plan to burning toxic artillery propellant at Camp
Minden, La., media reports
Mark Schleifstein
The Times-Picayune
January 09, 2015 at 5:39 PM
A plan by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to dispose of 15
million pounds of toxic artillery propellant by open burning at Camp Minden
, a Louisiana National Guard facility in Webster Parish, has run into
opposition from environmentalists and public officials, according to the
Monroe News Star andKNOE-TV in Monroe.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/01/opposition_grows_to_epa_plan_t.html
National
Garbage Incinerators Make Comeback, Kindling Both Garbage and Debate
NY Times
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Rising from a denuded landscape
not far from this area's famed beaches, the nation's first
new commercial garbage incinerator in 20 years is about to
be fired up, ready to blast up to 3,000 tons of trash a
day into electricity for thousands of houses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/us/garbage-incinerators-make-comeback-kindling-both-garbage-and-debate.html?ref=earth&_r=0
Explosion, Fire Reported at Husky Energy Refinery in Ohio
Company Spokesman Says no Injuries Reported, All Personnel Accounted For
Wall Street Journal
An explosion and fire hit a U.S. refinery operated by Canadian oil firm
Husky Energy on Saturday, causing no injuries but waking local residents in
Lima, Ohio with the blast.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/explosion-fire-reported-at-husky-energy-refinery-in-ohio-1421007731?autologin=y
Opinion
Geoff Pender: Creeping bureaucratic sprawl continues
Clarion Ledger
The vast, creeping bureaucratic sprawl of Mississippi's agencies,
boards and commissions is like the weather: Everybody talks about
it, but nobody does anything about it.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/01/10/geoff-pender-creeping-bureaucratic-sprawl-continues/21580495/
