State
FIRST RESPONDER PIPELINE TRAINING
WCBI
LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – First responders learn how to respond to an emergency involving a pipeline in Lowndes County.
Wild hogs continuing to wreak havoc across MS
NewsMS
Wild hogs are a tremendous problem for farmers and landowners throughout the state of Mississippi.
Oil Spill
Gulf Consortium accepts comments on RESTORE plan to fund Bayou Chico, Santa Rosa Sound
PNJ
A 45-day public comment period has started to gather feedback on the RESTORE Act's state expenditure plan that includes $12.6 million to clean up Bayou Chico and $12.6 million to improve water quality in Santa Rosa Sound.
Central sewer possible use for oil spill money
Panama City News Herald
BAY COUNTY — Bay County is requesting a portion of oil-spill damages from Pot 3 be spent on installing central sewer service in the area around Deer Point Lake as well as other projects to improve the water quality of St. Andrew Bay and Grand Lagoon.
Milton to repair Russell Harber Road
Santa Rosa Press Gazette
MILTON — The city has acquired an Environmental Resource Permit for Southern Site Development LLC to begin repairing parts of the road leading to Russell Harber Landing.
More oyster reefs could help fight erosion on Texas coast
AP
GALVESTON, TEXAS
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department in the past 10 years has built more than 400 acres of oyster reef off the coast — multimillion dollar projects intended to jump start the harvest of oysters, particularly after hurricanes and drought devastated the resource.
Regional
U.S. Supreme Court leaps into La. endangered gopher frog case
Times-Picayune
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday (Jan. 22) that it will jump into the long-standing legal dispute over 1,544 acres of St. Tammany Parish timberland that the federal government has called critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog, an endangered species found only in Mississippi.
LEAN, Ascension councilman sue over expansion of Republic Services' Colonial Landfill
The Advocate
LEAN and the chairman of the Ascension Parish Council have brought a legal challenge to the expansion of a Sorrento-area landfill that has drawn controversy over foul odors coming from the decades old dump, critics say.
Groundbreaking for $872 million Entergy Louisiana plant
AP
WESTLAKE, LA.
Government officials and executives of the Entergy utility corporation gathered in southwest Louisiana to break ground for an $872 million natural gas-fired generating station.
National
Patchwork Water Pollution Rule Takes Effect After Supreme Court Ruling
Bloomberg
Most of the country will be subject to an Obama-era regulation defining the reach of the nation’s water pollution law, but the regulation still faces a bevy of legal challenges across the country in a process that promises to be “chaos.”
Big East Coast Refiner Files for Bankruptcy, Blaming Regulation
Philadelphia Energy, which agreed to a chapter 11 plan with its top lenders, hopes to gain judicial approval for its reorganization plan by the end of February
WSJ
Philadelphia Energy Solutions LLC affiliates accounting for more than one-quarter of the fuel-refining capacity on the East Coast filed for bankruptcy protection, blaming the steep cost of complying with a federal environmental regulation.
Press Releases
Museum to Host “Conservation Quest” Exhibit
From MDWFP
JACKSON – Visitors to MDWFP’s Mississippi Museum of Natural Science are invited to explore the “Conservation Quest” exhibit from January 27, 2018 – April 29, 2018. This interactive exhibit explores energy and conservation: what energy is, where it comes from, how we use it, and why it is important to use it wisely.
