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Where the Pearl River Flows Jackson Free Press
If you have expired, unused or unwanted prescription pills or patches in your home, the Drug Enforcement Administration is giving you a chance to dispose of them safely.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/article147217549.html Drug take-back day provides safe way to dispose unwanted drugs WTOK
The state port has landed its biggest tenant in terms of space leased and projected tonnage exported, with a potential to collect millions a year in fees.
SeaOne Gulfport would receive gas and gas liquids at the port and use patented compressed gas liquid technology to prepare a single liquid product for delivery to the Caribbean.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/business/article147264564.html Regional
Alabama environmental agency's budget is less than $11 per person, last in U.S. Al.com
Beneath the oak canopy, residents who lived for decades in a cozy, peaceful, jasmine-scented corner of north Coconut Grove walked dogs, tended gardens, exchanged recipes and followed the love-thy-neighbor commandment.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article147103874.html National
Court delays EPA mercury rule case while Trump reviews The Hill
A robot zaps and vacuums up venomous lionfish in Bermuda. A helicopter pelts Guam's trees with poison-baited dead mice to fight the voracious brown tree snake. A special boat with giant winglike nets stuns and catches Asian carp in the U.S. Midwest.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/business/technology/article147325594.html Opinion
Guest commentary: EPA protection would suffer under Trump’s proposed consolidation Kansas City Star
Recent reports indicate the Trump administration is considering consolidating two Environmental Protection Agency regional offices as part of its effort to make unprecedented cuts in the EPA’s budget. We hear the regional office in Chicago would be consolidated into the one in Lenexa. If this plan were to come to fruition, Region 7 would span a gigantic territory from the western High Plains of Kansas to the base of the Appalachians in Ohio, and from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota to the Bootheel of Missouri.
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article147242339.html Trump’s Monumental Task A review of federal land grabs, especially in the West, is long overdue.
WSJ
President Trump on Wednesday ordered a review of national monument designations to “end another egregious use of government power.” Federal land grabs have hampered resource development, and Mr. Trump could advance his pro-growth agenda by unlocking millions of acres.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-monumental-task-1493334607 
