State
Leak on Wynndale Lake Road concerns Jackson’s residents about their health
By Andrew Nomura
TERRY, Miss. (WJTV) – Neighbors who live on a street in Hinds County, are complaining about a pesky water leak.
Bob Sheppard has lived on Wynndale Lake Rd. for 40 years, and says he is upset about a water leak that constantly flows in his neighborhood. And he wants someone to fix it.
http://wjtv.com/2016/07/19/leak-on-wynndale-lake-road-concerns-jacksons-residents-about-their-health/
Mississippi Department of Education returns to downtown
headquarters
JACKSON, Miss (AP) -The Mississippi Department of Education is returning to its downtown Jackson headquarters after fire and water damage led the agency to spend nearly a year in temporary quarters in Clinton..
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/32483106/mississippi-department-of-education-returns-to-downtown-headquarters
Gravel pit hearing reset to Sept. 19
By HENRY BAILEY
The latest dirt is more delay on deciding the gravel pit saga pitting Standard Construction, which proposes a mining operation in the Lewisburg area near Olive Branch, and dozens of residents of Evening Shade and other neighborhoods who oppose it.http://www.desototimes.com/news/gravel-pit-hearing-reset-to-sept/article_d84d98ac-4d2d-11e6-80ed-171ffb1ba2dd.html
Kemper plant succeeds in producing gas from lignite
By JACK WEATHERLY
Mississippi Power has started producing synthetic gas using lignite at the Kemper County energy facility, the long-overdue and cost-overrun plagued project.
http://msbusiness.com/2016/07/kemper-plant-succeeds-in-producing-gas-from-lignite/
Regional
Fallout from Unauthorized Dumping of Fracking Waste in KY
The controversy over waste illegally dumped in a Kentucky landfill from out-of-state fracking operations has made its way to a legislative committee hearing in Frankfort. (Sierra Club)
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The fallout continues from the unauthorized dumping of fracking waste from West Virginia into a Kentucky landfill.
Nearly 2,000 tons of the low-level radioactive waste was moved to the Blue Ridge Landfill near Irvine, a violation of Estill County's host agreement with the solid-waste facility. The county's judge executive, Republican Wallace Taylor, voiced his frustrations Tuesday to lawmakers on the state's Natural Resources and Environment Committee.
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-07-20/environment/fallout-from-unauthorized-dumping-of-fracking-waste-in-ky/a53071-1
National
Fracking wells may increase asthma attacks, study says
(CNN)Ever wondered if your asthma attacks can be tied to the fracking wells near your house? You are probably right.
Asthma patients are 1.5 to four times more likely to have asthma attacks if they live near bigger or a larger number of unconventional natural gas development wells, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
The researchers at Johns Hopkins University partnered with Geisinger Health System and conducted the study using electronic health records from 2005 to 2012 in north and central Pennsylvania.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/health/fracking-increased-asthma-attacks/index.html
Court backs EPA in mountaintop mining permit case
By Timothy Cama - 07/19/16 11:31 AM EDT
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed the law in 2011 when it revoked a company’s mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/288319-court-backs-epa-in-mountaintop-mining-permit-case
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Robbie Wilbur
Communications Director
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Post Office Box 2261
Jackson, Mississippi 39225
rwilbur@mdeq.ms.gov
601-961-5277 (office)
601-421-5699 (cell)
@MDEQ
