State
Public forum on trash collection requested
Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — Residents with ideas for Natchez’s next waste and recycling collection contract will likely soon have the chance for their voices to be heard.
Forestry Commission puts out nine wildfires in a single day
NewsMS
The Mississippi Forestry Commission put out nine wildfires Monday.
State Government
Revenue collections for November still up
Daily Journal
JACKSON – Most sources of tax revenue, with the exception of corporate tax collections, are up year over year, according to the revenue report for the month of November, released recently by the staff of the Legislative Budget Committee.
Regional
'We are at the tip of the spear': Baton Rouge opens international water research hub
The Advocate
Baton Rouge will be a hub for water research on the Louisiana coast and worldwide from Texas to the Vietnam's Mekong Delta, authorities said Tuesday before opening the Center for Coastal and Deltaic Solutions on the Water Campus.
National
Exxon Mobil to disclose climate change risks
The Hill
Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to regularly disclose analyses of the impacts to its business from climate change and policies meant to fight it.
EPA watchdog to probe Pruitt’s $25,000 privacy booth
The Hill
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) internal watchdog will investigate Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to spend nearly $25,000 on a privacy booth for his office.
How Much Food Do We Waste? Probably More Than You Think
NY Times
Globally, we throw out about 1.3 billion tons of food a year, or a third of all the food that we grow.
That’s important for at least two reasons. The less the world wastes, the easier it will be to meet the food needs of the global population in coming years. Second, cutting back on waste could go a long way to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
German watchdog recalls VW Touaregs over defeat devices
Reuters
Germany’s KBA automotive watchdog on Tuesday announced a recall of Volkswagen’s flagship European sport-utility vehicles (SUV) with 3-litre diesel engines after detecting two illicit emissions control devices in the models.
Press Releases
Tulane study evaluates the status of brown pelicans along the Gulf Coast
Tulane University’s Karubian Lab has released a new five-year, two-part study on the populations of brown pelicans along the Gulf Coast. The work charts the birds’ ability to rebound from near extinction in the state of Louisiana as a result of storms and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Scientists Home in on Causes of High Radium Levels in Key Midwestern Aquifer
USGS
Oxygen levels, dissolved minerals among factors responsible for high concentrations of radium in untreated water from aquifer that underlies six states
