State
Harrison County Utility Authority fines Waste Pro almost half a million dollars
Sun Herald
Unresolved complaints to cost Waste Pro $454,000
WLOX
The Harrison County Utility Authority wants Waste Pro to pay up for what it calls sub-par service.
29th annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup rescheduled for Nov. 18
Mississippi Press
JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. -- Volunteers and community members alike will show up in various Jackson County communities on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. for the 29th annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup.
Got drugs? MPD preparing for Take-Back Initiative
WTOK
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - The Meridian Police Department is teaming up with Total Pain Care to help keep prescription drugs off the streets.
LOOK AT OLD RAPIDS PROPERTY
Northside Sun
Reservoir officials have authorized the first phase of an environmental assessment to be completed on 30 acres of reservoir property, once home to waterpark Rapids on the Reservoir and located on the southeast portion of Spillway Road.
Renewable Fuels Company to Locate at Belwood
Natchez Democrat
State-subsidized solar panel maker to close in Mississippi
AP
JACKSON, MISS.
A green energy company heavily incentivized by Mississippi is shutting down, raising questions about whether the state will get repaid.
She was her mother’s world and her daddy’s biggest fan. Sophia Myers is in heaven now.
Sun Herald
From the time she could talk, what
Sophia Myers said she loved best about herself was her heart.
And it was the 7-year-old’s kind and compassionate heart in the face of great suffering that brought a community of friends and strangers together in prayer and service to the child.
Oil Spill
BP chairman who oversaw Deepwater Horizon spill to retire
AP
LONDON -- Energy firm
BP announced Thursday (Oct. 19) that Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman who presided over the company during the
Deepwater Horizon spill, has decided to retire.
Regional
More oil than initially believed spilled off Louisiana coast
AP
NEW ORLEANS
The Coast Guard says the amount of oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's coast last weekend is substantially higher than initial estimates.
Miami can now challenge a state rule that allows more toxins in the water
Miami Herald
TALLAHASSEE
After a year of legal hurdles, the city of Miami and Seminole Tribe of Florida can now move forward with a lawsuit challenging a state rule that would allow higher concentrations of toxic chemicals, including carcinogens, to be discharged into Florida’s rivers and streams.
Alligators vs. sharks: In Gulf Coast waterways the gators are winning, research finds
Times-Picayune
A few years ago, a bird watcher was zooming her camera on a marsh bird when a photo-bombing alligator made the picture a lot more interesting.
National
U.S. EPA to shrink response time for permit requests: Pruitt
Reuters
THE WOODLANDS, Texas (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will cut response times to permit requests to within six months by the end of 2018, part of the agency’s goal to reduce regulations and delays, Administrator Scott Pruitt said on Thursday.
No One Values Your Life More
Than the Federal Government
Bloomberg
When a federal agency wants to implement a new regulation, it often needs to answer one basic question first: Do the benefits outweigh the costs? One way of calculating how beneficial a regulation might be is to measure how many deaths it would prevent, and what each life saved is worth.
Study finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger
AP
NEW DELHI (AP) - Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
E.P.A. Scrubs Climate Change Website of ‘Climate Change’
NY Times
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed dozens of online resources dedicated to helping local governments address climate change, part of an apparent effort by the agency to play down the threat of global warming.
EPA orders more repairs at Texas toxic site following Harvey
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency ordered two companies on Thursday to make more extensive repairs to stabilize the area around a Superfund toxic waste site near Houston following Hurricane Harvey.
The Race to Save Coffee
Washington Post
Centroamericano, a new variety of coffee plant, hasn’t sparked the buzz of, say, Starbucks’s latest novelty latte. But it may be the coolest thing in brewing: a tree that can withstand the effects of climate change.
Opinion
A NEW PSC
Northside Sun
In what should be a great relief to the citizens in this state, the Mississippi Public Service Commission is shedding its reputation as a lapdog to the monopoly utilities it regulates.
