State
Council will not seek Lamar Co. land for spray fields
Hattiesburg American
Nothing is set in stone, it seems, when it comes to finalizing a new wastewater treatment system for Hattiesburg.
Hattiesburg withdraws from Lamar County wastewater plans
WDAM
HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -After a special-called meeting by the Hattiesburg City Council, it is back to the drawing board for a land application system.
http://www.wdam.com/story/32397855/hattiesburg-withdraws-from-lamar-county-wastewater-plans
ARE HANCOCK COUNTY GULF WATERS SAFE?
WXXV
Ronald Winnert continues to work through rehab in Slidell after losing his leg to vibrio in Bay St. Louis last month.
http://www.wxxv25.com/2016/07/07/hancock-county-gulf-waters-safe-2/
MDEQ: Swimming ok in all parts of the Mississippi Sound
WLOX
HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) -The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Thursday afternoon lifted the only current water contact advisory in Harrison County for Gulfport Central Beach from Alfonso Drive to Arkansas Avenue.
http://www.wdam.com/story/32397283/mdeq-swimming-ok-in-all-parts-of-the-mississippi-sound
Alderman Plan to Amend Burn Ordinance
Daily Leader
http://www.dailyleader.com/2016/07/06/aldermen-plan-to-amend-burn-ordinance/
Corps of Engineers sets change of command in Memphis
AP
The Army Corps of Engineers in Memphis is holding a change of command ceremony next week.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/business/technology/article88382242.html
National
Average Costs of Air Toxics Cases Increasing: EPA Data
Bloomberg
The average cost of settling hazardous air pollution cases with the Environmental Protection Agency has been going up.
http://www.bna.com/average-costs-air-n57982076705/
Groups sue EPA over air pollution standards
The Hill
Conservation and public health groups are taking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court in an attempt to force an update of two air pollution standards.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/286905-groups-sues-epa-over-air-pollution-standards
US House Probes Response to Toxic Chemical in Drinking Water
AP
A congressional committee is asking state officials and federal environmental regulators for information about their responses to drinking water contaminated with the toxic chemical PFOA in an upstate New York village.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-house-probes-response-toxic-chemical-drinking-water-40420034
EPA urges states to publish individual lead water samples
AP
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — States have taken steps to address the risk of lead in drinking water after the crisis in Flint, Michigan, but more needs to be done to share key information with the public, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/epa-urges-states-to-publish-individual-lead-water-samples/
Opinion
Kemper whistleblower exposes deception: Editorial
Greenwood Commonwealth
Mississippi Power Co.'s "clean coal" boondoggle is an ongoing disaster: humongous cost overruns, grossly missed timetables, construction blunders and, now, the possibility of criminal charges for misleading investors about the still unfinished experiment in Kemper County.
The Climate Police Crack-Up
Those Exxon Mobil subpoenas? Never mind.
WSJ
Free-speech advocates have reason to cheer as two state attorneys general have walked back their subpoenas against Exxon Mobil Corp., tacitly admitting that their climate-change harassment lacks a legal basis.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-police-crack-up-1467933366
Press Releases
EIA recently released preliminary data from its annual survey of electric generators (EIA-860), which provides information on pollution control equipment at electric power plants. A significant number of electric power plants recently installed such equipment in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
