State
MDEQ Promotes a Green Holiday Season
WJTV (includes video)
JACKSON, MISS. (MDEQ) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) encourages Mississippians to remember the environment this holiday season through waste reduction, reuse, and recycling practices to “green up” the holiday season.
MDEQ tips for celebrating a green Christmas
Meridian Star
With the holiday season in motion and present shopping underway, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality shared some advice for residents trying to reduce their carbon footprint this year.
Changes coming for Waste Pro customers in Forrest Co.
WDAM
If you live in Forrest County and Waste Pro crews pick up your trash every week, some changes are coming for you.
Oil Spill
Coast chambers push for one voice to fight for BP money
WLOX
The coast business community is on a mission. It's developing a united front in the battle to make sure the coast gets its fair share of BP settlement money.
Regional
Oil still leaking at site of 13-year-old spill in Gulf
AP
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Federal officials say they have found fresh evidence of an "ongoing oil release" at the site of a 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, where chronic sheens often stretch for miles off Louisiana's coast.
National
Trump EPA floats possible replacement for Obama climate rule
The Hill
The Trump administration is kicking off the process to formally consider replacing former President Barack Obama’s climate change rule for power plants.
EPA seeks comment on carbon rule replacement
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a notice that it wants public input for a possible replacement of Obama-era regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that the agency is repealing.
EPA says herbicide in Roundup weed killer doesn't cause cancer, contradicting California regulators
LA Times
Press Releases
EPA Announces Next Steps After Proposed Clean Power Plan Repeal
12/18/2017
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to announce that the Agency will solicit public input as it considers the next regulatory steps to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing electric utility generating units (EGUs), also known as power plants.
NOAA’s GOES-16, now at GOES-East, ready to improve forecasts even more
New satellite proved vital for forecasters, emergency managers during 2017’s active hurricane season
December 18, 2017
Now in its new GOES-East position, the advanced GOES-16 satellite has officially joined NOAA’s operational observation network, providing forecasters with sharper, more defined images of severe storms, hurricanes, wildfires and other weather hazards in near real-time 24/7.
