State
Recovery of buried Copiah County workers continues
Clarion Ledger
Recovery efforts at the scene of a gravel pit landslide in Copiah
County Friday that buried two workers and the equipment they were
operating in gravel and sand continued over the weekend under
difficult conditions.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/06/05/recovery-buried-copiah-workers-continues/85451016/
State refutes report Jackson cheated in lead water test
Clarion Ledger
An international newspaper claims that Jackson and Southaven
"cheated" on lead-in-water tests, but Mississippi health officials
disagree.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/06/03/mississippi-changes-lead-testing-better-epa-compliance/85310430/
New Rate Structure was Required to Keep Landfill Open
Picayune Item
http://www.picayuneitem.com/2016/06/new-rate-structure-was-required-to-keep-landfill-open/
Regional
Alabama Landfill Activists Seek Dismissal of Slander Suit
AP
Four activists from one of Alabama's poorest communities asked a federal
judge Thursday to dismiss a $30 million slander suit filed by Georgia
companies that claim they were maligned by complaints about a landfill that
accepted tons of coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority spill.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/alabama-landfill-activists-seek-dismissal-slander-suit-39556864
National
Week ahead: Ozone rule, chemical safety top agenda
The Hill
The House is likely to take up a trio of bills to fight Democratic
environmental priorities, and the Senate could vote on a chemical safety
bill overhaul as lawmakers return from a weeklong recess.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/282161-week-ahead-ozone-rule-chemical-safety-top-agenda
Court upholds storage of nuclear waste at power plants, rebuffing states
The Hill
A federal appeals court Friday rejected a plea from four liberal states to
overturn a regulation allowing long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel at
power plants.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/282107-court-upholds-nuclear-plant-waste-standards
Hawaii's beaches are covered in huge amounts of plastic, survey says
Washington Post
A new study of the Hawaiian Islands has made a disturbing, if not entirely
surprising, discovery: Hawaii's paradisal beaches have a major plastic
problem. The results of an aerial survey, released this week by the state's
Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), identified more than
20,000 bits of debris on the main Hawaiian islands -- and most of it is
plastic, a form of waste that's considered particularly harmful to marine
life.
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/06/hawaiis_beaches_are_covered_in.html#incart_river_index
Opinion
Spend BP money to restore Mississippi Sound
Letter to the Editor
Sun Herald
Beach advisories, dead baby dolphins, flesh-eating disease and now scores
of stinky dead menhaden along the shores of Jones Park.
http://www.sunherald.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article81851557.html
