State
Red Oak trash hearing Feb. 20
Madison County Journal
Residents in Red Oak Plantation are still seeking relief from the county with regards to junk property that was supposed to be dealt with last summer.
Habitat Day Scheduled February 3 At Enid Lake
North Mississippi Herald
Enid Lake's Annual Habitat Day is scheduled Saturday, February 3, with activities beginning at 7 a.m. at the Enid Lake Field Office. This year Habitat Day volunteers will be working at Rowsey, Bynum and Robinson Crossing areas on Enid Lake.
Regional
Washington Parish Council opposes Pearl River flood project
Times-Picayune
The Washington Parish Council has come out against a controversial project to dam the upper Pearl River to provide flood protection near Jackson, Miss.
TVA CEO regrets Memphis aquifer decision
Memphis Business Journal
Dicamba: EPA director discusses changes and what growers should know
EPA director says dicamba technology must be better managed in 2018.
Delta Farm Press
Rick Keigwin knows some soybean and cotton farmers like the new dicamba herbicides now available to manage weeds. But as an EPA director, Keigwin says the technology must be better managed in 2018.
Some top New Orleans chefs weigh in on fisheries bills
AP
More than two dozen chefs, including some of New Orleans' finest, are asking members of Congress to shoot down bills that would change fisheries management, which they say could lead to overfishing.
National
Water Utilities Fear EPA Loan Program Growing Too Big, Too Fast
Bloomberg
A fledgling water infrastructure loan program at the EPA is experiencing an unusual problem in Washington: It may enjoy too much political support.
DNR board approves measure to limit manure pollution in eastern Wisconsin to protect groundwater
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two years after Flint water crisis, EPA ramps up for 'war on lead'
MLive
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two years after the Flint water crisis was recognized as a federal emergency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top executive is vowing a renewed push to revise the Lead and Copper Rule, according to a published report.
Chicago joins Lake Michigan surfers in suing U.S. Steel over toxic chromium spills
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday added the city’s legal muscle to a lawsuit filed by Lake Michigan surfers over spills of toxic chromium from a U.S. Steel plant near one of Chicago’s drinking water intakes.
California to sue Trump administration for repeal of fracking rules
Reuters
California’s attorney general on Wednesday said the state plans to sue the Trump administration over its repeal of Obama-era rules meant to address public safety concerns in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal lands.
Cancer Listing for Plastics Chemical Unlikely to Burden Companies
Bloomberg
A federal science panel soon will decide whether a chemical made or imported by BASF, DuPont, Campine NV, and Lanxess Corp. to make flame retardants, batteries, and plastics should be classified as a potential human carcinogen.
Small refiners hit EPA with surge of biofuel waiver requests: sources
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than two dozen small U.S. refineries are seeking waivers from the nation’s biofuels law, an unusually high number that reflects growing oil industry resistance to the program, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Big Pharma Suppliers Are Dumping Toxic Waste in the Environment, Investor Alleges
Water samples outside some factories found to be tainted with metals and industrial solvents
WSJ
A Swedish investor is pressing the world’s biggest drug companies to be transparent about their supply chains, after it alleged that some suppliers to those firms were dumping toxic waste into the environment.
Opinion
A Biofuels Bankruptcy
The renewable fuel standards suffocate a Philadelphia refiner.
Editorial – WSJ
The East Coast’s biggest refinery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, and Philadelphia Energy Solutions puts the blame with the federal government’s biofuels policies. The refinery’s workers are justified in asking why the Trump Administration failed to spare them when it had the chance last fall.
