State Judge rules in favor of Costco plan in Ridgeland MBJ
Deer Island was packed with activity today as many people launched a mission to clean up the barrier island in our gulf. News 25’s Gina Tomlinson joined the volunteers today for the eighth annual Deer Island Cleanup, part of Mississippi’s ongoing Renew our Rivers program.
http://wxxv25.com/2017/04/21/volunteers-cleanup-tons-trash-deer-island/ Coast gets blinded by science as marchers take to the streets Sun Herald
LONG BEACH
More than 100 people gathered at Harper McCaughan Town Green on Saturday afternoon with a single goal — to show their support for science. The messages of those who made the 1-mile trek to the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus were varied, however.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article146217724.html Oxford demonstrators march in support of science Oxford Eagle
Mississippi residents interested in learning about oyster farming, or oyster aquaculture, can now sign up for a class scheduled for this summer in Dauphin Island, Ala., that is co-sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources.
http://newsms.fm/oyster-farming-classes-to-be-offered-by-dmr/ MDWFP proposes new deer regulations Clarion Ledger
HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: For a closer look at the environmental policies of the Trump administration — what it’s done and what it plans to do — I’m joined from Washington by “New York Times” reporter Coral Davenport.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/trump-grapples-campaign-promises-environment/ Trump on Earth Day: 'Rigorous science is critical to my administration' CNN
President Donald Trump declared his support for the environment and scientific research on his first Earth Day in the White House amid harsh criticisms over his actions to
roll back environmental regulations and proposed cuts to non-military spending, including at the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/22/politics/earth-day-donald-trump/
Volkswagen ordered to pay $2.8B for cheating on diesel emissions Detroit Free Press
Seven years ago this month, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Eleven men lost their lives and crude oil rushed into the Gulf for 87 long days. Wildlife from sea turtles to whales, shorebirds to oysters, corals to plankton were all harmed. Last year, the federal government determined that collectively these injuries could "best be described as an injury to the entire ecosystem of the northern Gulf of Mexico."
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/O-Mara-7-years-after-BP-spill-Gulf-s-bright-11090693.php We dare to take a peek behind the curtain at state capitol Bill Crawford
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Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn are touting their great success this year in holding down the cost of government.
http://www.sunherald.com/opinion/other-voices/article146012644.html Press Releases NEW ONLINE RESOURCE CATALOGS YEARS OF GULF OIL SPILL RESEARCH April 21, 2017
Seven years of research on the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill by scientists including Eckerd College professors and students has been turned into a multimedia resource called
Beneath the Horizon.
Eckerd College
The interactive website, which launched on April 20, was sponsored by
Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem (C-IMAGE) and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. April 20 marked the seventh anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 workers and set off a chain of events that led to 210 million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days.
A timeline of the spill, an interactive map of other spill locations in the gulf, videos about the recovery and human cost were all made possible by data collected through extensive research. Eckerd professors David Hastings, Professor of
Marine Science and
Chemistry, and Gregg Brooks, Professor of Marine Science, were able to use sediment cores to determine that changes seen and recovery rates of smaller seafloor creatures and help scientists come to the conclusion that areas of the Northern Gulf took two years to return to pre-spill conditions.
Eckerd students also contributed by participating in annual “Mud & Blood” science expedition cruises to collect sediment from cores a mile deep in affected areas. C-IMAGE announced that these expeditions will end in July.
The C-IMAGE Consortium was founded by the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and has grown to include research from Eckerd College, Florida State University, Georgia Tech University, Penn State University, Hamburg University of Technology, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, University of Florida, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Calgary, University of West Florida, University of Western Australia, William and Mary College’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Florida Institute of Oceanography, Mind Open Media, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Wageningen University and Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Mote Marine Laboratory.
https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/gulf-oil-spill-research/ 
