State
Dam the Pascagoula?
'Rare and famous river' could suffer if major tributary dammed
BY KAREN NELSON
Sun Herald
PASCAGOULA -- A Coast Sierra Club representative asked the Jackson County
Board of Supervisors to withdraw its support for a huge recreational lake
in George County that would require damming a major tributary in the
Pascagoula River system.
http://www.sunherald.com/2015/09/14/6414179_dam-the-pascagoula.html?rh=1
Oil Spill
$52 million in restoration, river projects to be discussed Tuesday
Benjamin Alexander-Bloch
The Times-Picayune
September 14, 2015 at 1:31 PM
Six coastal and wetland restoration projects and a study of the lower
Mississippi River are in line to receive $52 million from federal Clean
Water Act fines paid by Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon
drillship that exploded during the BP oil spill disaster in 2010.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/09/52_million_in_restoration_proj.html#incart_most_shared-environment
Pensacola Hatchery Plan Moving Forward
WUWF
Bids will soon begin flowing in, for construction of Florida's first
saltwater production hatchery at Bruce Beach in downtown Pensacola.
http://wuwf.org/post/pensacola-hatchery-plan-moving-forward
National
Capitol Hill Buzz: Republican lawmaker wants to impeach EPA chief Gina
McCarthy
AP
WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker says the head of the Environmental
Protection Agency should be impeached, but the effort appears unlikely to
get very far.
http://www.startribune.com/capitol-hill-buzz-gop-lawmaker-looks-to-impeach-epa-chief/327511391/
Biofuels Try to Snap Out of Dormant Phase
The promise of energy from sources like wood chips and switchgrass is still
a long way off.
WSJ
Nearly 10 years ago, then-President George W. Bush promised to fund
research in "cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn
but from wood chips and stalks or switchgrass."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/biofuels-try-to-snap-out-of-dormant-phase-1442197715
Seattle sued over recycling inspectors keeping tabs on residents' trash
Fox News
When it comes to garbage, the city of Seattle has launched a waste war.
Nine full-time solid waste inspectors have been hired as part of a
controversial program to check city trash to make sure people are
recycling.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/14/trash-talk-seattle-war-on-waste/?intcmp=hplnws
