State
A toxic waste site near the Sound in Pascagoula is too close for comfort. The EPA has a plan.
Sun Herald
PASCAGOULA
When the giant gypsum stacks, with the hundreds of millions of gallons of acid water they create, became a Superfund site last month, the head of EPA said it would move quickly to make a difference.
He’s doing it.
Harmontown residents breathe a smelly sigh of relief
Oxford Eagle
Residents of Harmontown have been in a smelly situation for the past two and a half months.
CenterPoint Solutions, a company that mixes an odorant called ethyl mercaptan into natural gas, has a site on County Road 515 in Harmontown, where a spill has left soil contaminated with the undiluted odorant.
UMMC CONSTRUCTION HAS LITTLE IMPACT ON FLOODING IN BELHAVEN NEIGHBORHOOD
Northside Sun
RECENT major construction projects at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have had little, if any, impact on flooding in Belhaven.
Greenville takes out short-term loan for sewer project
AP
A Mississippi city is borrowing money to help pay for improvements to its sewer system.
The Delta Democrat-Times reports that Greenville City Council members voted for the $2 million short-term loan during their final meeting of 2017.
Recycled Christmas trees used to create fish shelters
Oxford Eagle
With the 2017 holiday season of×cially over, it’s just about time to say goodbye to O Tannenbaum — the family Christmas tree.
One Lake Project One Step Closer to Public Input
JFP
JACKSON — The "One Lake" plan and its current proposed footprint may be finally coming to fruition. Or at least into public view.
State Government
Lawmakers to review ways to make public's identifiable data in state hands more secure
Clarion Ledger
Records belonging to the Department of Human Services that contained such items as official birth certificates, bank account statements and Social Security cards were found scattered along a roadway in Hancock County in 2016.
Oil Spill
COASTAL LEGISLATORS LOOK FOR UNITY ON BP SETTLEMENT BILL
MPB
Lawmakers and business leaders along the Gulf Coast are hoping a unified message will help push through a bill that solidifies what will happen with millions of dollars from BP’s economic settlement with the state. MPB’s Evelina Burnett reports.
Can we have better schools, better roads and BP money? The next 90 days will tell.
Sun Herald
Regional
Progress comes slowly at site of defunct Arkansas chemical plant; pollutants linger in flood-risk zone
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Some officials in Phillips County say they aren’t concerned about incomplete cleanup of a chemical site in Helena-West Helena that is located in a flood-risk zone.
National
‘SMOTHERED’ AND
‘SHOVED ASIDE’ IN
RURAL AMERICA
Washington Post
Come on! Come on! Go girls!” Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president.
Public left footing bill for cleanup at abandoned mines in the West
AP
CUBA, N.M. (AP) — For decades, yellow- and white-tinged piles of waste from a defunct copper mine have covered the mountainside at the edge of the quintessential New Mexico village of Cuba — out of sight, out of mind and not nasty enough to warrant the attention of the federal government’s Superfund program.
Nebraska students tackle a state-centric environmental problem — cow burps — with award-winning results
Lincoln Journal-Star
Nic Kite grew up on a small farm in Nemaha County, and has fond memories of going to livestock auctions with his grandfather, where they’d survey everything from a heifer's midsection to its gait in an effort to try to size up its potential value.
