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SEWER TANK OVERFLOWS IN HANCOCK COUNTY WXXV
AP
Mississippi utility regulators want to pull the plug on costly technology at a first-of-its-kind power plant, saying one of the nation’s largest utilities should absorb more than $6.5 billion in losses and ratepayers should pay nothing more.
https://www.apnews.com/71d83e1b67c2417f9a0e5c9b77959f52
Mississippi Regulators Seek to End Southern Co. ‘Clean-Coal’ Plant
After $7.5 billion spent, Kemper facility may be converted permanently to natural gas
WSJ
Tense words at the CMR over proposed oyster dredge ban
WLOX
Krutz tapped to lead Water Resources Research Institute
Starkville Daily News
The Natural Resources Conservation Service has unveiled an effort to increase the abundance and improve the health of longleaf pine forests in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. The two-year strategy aims to help private landowners restore and protect 400,000 acres of longleaf pine forests.
http://www.deltafarmpress.com/usda/nrcs-releases-plan-improve-longleaf-pine-forests Chemours to take new steps to keep GenX out of Cape Fear River WECT
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) -The Chemours Company said in a news release Tuesday that it plans to remove all wastewater containing an unregulated toxin at its manufacturing plant in Fayetteville beginning Wednesday.
http://www.wect.com/story/35709445/chemours-claims-it-is-removing-genx National
Trump Relying on Courts to Halt Obama EPA Rules, Lawyers Say Bloomberg
The Trump administration is placing a greater reliance on courts to block environmental regulations than any of its predecessors, according to lawyers interviewed by Bloomberg BNA.
https://www.bna.com/trump-relying-courts-n73014453676/
Wisconsin partners with West Virginia in effort to limit impact of federal Waters of the U.S. rule Capital Times WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced an initiative to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people. This initiative implements the vision set out by President Trump in Executive Order (E.O.) 13777, “Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda.”
A notice will be published in the Federal Register providing instructions for commenting through
www.regulations.gov. Interior is seeking input from the public, and specifically from entities significantly affected by Federal regulations, on what Interior regulations may be appropriate for repeal, replacement, or modification because they:
- Eliminate jobs, or inhibit job creation;
- Are outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective;
- Impose costs that exceed benefits;
- Create a serious inconsistency or otherwise interfere with regulatory reform initiatives and policies;
- Rely, in part or in whole, on data or methods that are not publicly available or insufficiently transparent to meet the standard for reproducibility; or
- Derive from or implement E.O.s or other Presidential directives that have been subsequently rescinded or substantially modified.
- Interior encourages all sectors of the public, including state, local, and tribal governments, small businesses, consumers, non-governmental organizations, and trade associations to provide input to improve Interior’s regulations.
This initiative is part of a government-wide initiative to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens on the American public. Interior’s regulations include those of the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, National Park Service, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey, and other agencies.
For more information on Interior’s regulatory reform efforts, please visit
www.doi.gov/regulatory-reform/implement.
