State
Letters pour in regarding proposed poultry operation ordinance
Monroe Journal
ABERDEEN – During the board of supervisors’ Oct. 20 meeting, board attorney David Houston briefed the board regarding a number of letters he received following the recent public hearing pertaining to a proposed poultry operation ordinance for the county.
MDA Executive Director: Manufacturing booming in MS
NewsMS
Glenn McCullough, Executive Director of the Mississippi Development Authority recently sat down with News Mississippi to talk about the Mississippi economy.
Secretary of State to present check to DMR
NewsMS
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann will be presenting the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) with a check on Thursday.
State Government
Small decrease expected for Mississippi budget next year
AP
JACKSON, MISS.
Mississippi is on track to have a slightly smaller budget in the coming year under a revenue estimate adopted Wednesday, a change that reflects caution about the state's economy.
Top lawmakers approved a projection that the state will have $5.6 billion available to spend during fiscal 2019, which begins July 1.
Legislature expected to have slightly less money during 2018 session
Daily Journal
JACKSON – The Mississippi Legislature, based on preliminary numbers, will have $1.5 million less to spend in the 2018 session than it did last year.
Mississippi tax collections decline at start of budget year
AP
JACKSON, MISS.
Mississippi tax collections were slightly worse during the first three months of the current budget year than they were the same time last year, an expert told lawmakers Wednesday.
Mississippi moves to tax internet sales, after long delay
AP
JACKSON, MISS.
Mississippi will start requiring some large online and mail-order retailers to collect taxes on sales made from outside the state beginning Dec. 1, even though the move could be unenforceable and trigger an immediate court challenge.
Oil Spill
$2M to go toward protecting waterways with Restore Act funds
WEAR
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — A $2 million grant will be used to protect local waterways.
National Park Service issues call for bids from potential ferry service operators
PNJ
Gulf Islands National Seashore is looking for a company to operate two ferries expected to carry passengers from Fort Pickens to Pensacola Beach and downtown Pensacola starting this spring.
Regional
Mississippi Power’s parent company to sell solar assets, nuclear settlement to raise cash
Bloomberg
Southern Co. is shopping a $3.7 billion nuclear settlement and part of its solar-generation business to raise cash after recent acquisitions nearly doubled its debt.
National
Even Trump’s EPA says Obama’s climate plan would save thousands of lives each year
Washington Post
A sweeping Obama-era climate rule could prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths per year by 2030, the Trump administration has found in its analysis of the plan, projecting that the plan could save more lives than the Obama administration said it would.
Crops in 25 States Damaged by Unintended Drift of Weed Killer
NY Times
WASHINGTON — A weed killer called dicamba has damaged more than 3.6 million acres of soybean crops, or about 4 percent of all soybeans planted in the United States this year, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday in calling for an urgent federal response.
Court rejects greens’ plea to stop natural gas export projects
The Hill
A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected an environmental group’s lawsuits trying to overturn federal approval for three liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects.
Imperial Beach officials say shoreline hit by Tijuana sewage without warning, residents fall ill
San Diego Union-Tribune
Officials in Imperial Beach said Wednesday that sewage flowing up the coast from Tijuana fouled miles of shoreline over the weekend, severely sickening surfers and other beach goers.
Report: US fishermen catch up in value, volume dips slightly
AP
American fisheries grew by a little more than 2 percent in value last year, even with fishermen bringing slightly less fish to shore, the federal government reported on Wednesday.
Opinion
Keeping Scott Pruitt Safe
The EPA Administrator needs protection against unprecedented threats of violence.
Editorial – WSJ
Reform in Washington is always difficult, but at the Environmental Protection Agency it’s also dangerous. Since the Trump Administration took office, the agency has investigated more than 70 credible threats against EPA staffers, with a disproportionate number menacing Administrator Scott Pruitt and his family.
