State
R’LAND WANTS APPEAL DISMISSED
Northside Sun
More volleys have been fired in the legal battle surrounding the Ridgeland Costco.
http://northsidesun.com/news/r%E2%80%99land-wants-appeal-dismissed#sthash.ZK1ygc9W.dpbs
Urban and Community Forestry Conference is all about the trees
WLOX
GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) -It's all about the trees in Gulfport today as an annual conference plants its roots. It will offer some education and some recognition for the coast.
http://www.wlox.com/story/32565324/urban-and-community-forestry-conference-is-all-about-the-trees
New discovery: Horned dinosaurs walked Mississippi soil
WLBT
JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -Evidence of a new dinosaur roaming the state was found in north Mississippi.
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/32566518/new-discovery-horned-dinosaurs-walked-mississippi-soil
Regional
840 gallons of oil leak from pipe near Mississippi River's mouth
Times-Picayune
An estimated 840 gallons of oil leaked from a flow line into the marsh at Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard said Thursday (July 28). The pipeline, owned by Texas Petroleum Management, has been secured and a containment boom put in place, the agency said.
National
State Plans Violate ‘Bedrock' Clean Air Principles, EPA Says
Bloomberg
Thirty-six states have to update their plans for addressing excess emissions during facilities' startup, shutdown and malfunction because they contain provisions that violate “bedrock principles” of the Clean Air Act, according to the Environmental Protection Agency ( Walter Coke Inc. v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 15-1166, brief filed 7/26/16 ).
http://www.bna.com/state-plans-violate-n73014445522/
The Grand Sea Turtle
Experiment on Padre Island
NY Times
Seventy years ago, a Mexican engineer named Andrés Herrera came across a beach in Northeastern Mexico that was teeming with 40,000 nesting Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. He shot some footage and put the film in a drawer, where it sat for more than a decade before he told marine biologists of its existence.
EPA touts ‘strides’ in reducing algae in drinking water
Detroit News
Washington — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it has made “strides” in reducing the amount of toxic algae that ends up in the nation’s drinking water.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/07/28/epa-algae/87670702/
Chemical Rules' Worker Safety Parts Updated: EPA Proposal
Bloomberg
The Environmental Protection Agency will present plans to update the worker safety provisions of its new chemical rules, under a regulation it proposed July 27.
http://www.bna.com/chemical-rules-worker-n73014445520/
Why Pensions’ Last Defense Is Eroding
Long-term returns for U.S. public pensions are expected to drop to the lowest levels ever recorded
WSJ
Long-term returns for U.S. public pensions are expected to drop to the lowest levels ever recorded, portending deeper pain for states and cities as a $1 trillion funding gap widens.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pension-returns-slump-squeezing-states-and-cities-1469488579
