State
'OFF SCHOOL, ON SERVICE'
Students clear litter off streets
Daily Journal
TUPELO – It was a day off from school, but lessons were learned.
Students from Tupelo schools, community volunteers and employees of Tupelo Parks and Recreation combed through a handful of neighborhoods and parks in the city Monday picking up trash and litter from the roadside.
OYSTER DREDGE EXCHANGE IN BILOXI
WXXV
A state agency is offering Mississippi oystermen a new dredge to catch oysters after banning another kind that was more destructive to oyster reefs.
Southaven workshop to address solar energy
DeSoto Times-Tribune
An executive with a Nashville, Tenn.-based company promoting solar power believes investing in solar energy has become an option more businesses are looking at.
Marketing executive Brian Bickel with Lightwave Solar is part of a group holding a workshop in Southaven Friday morning to answer business questions about the power option.
State Government
Reeves unveils transportation plan that relies on bonds, existing revenue
Daily Journal
JACKSON – Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves unveiled Monday what he described as a comprehensive six-year plan to spend $1.17 billion in new money on infrastructure needs throughout the state.
Regional
Does Tyndall AFB have an environmental pollution problem?
WJHG
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - It’s a troubling claim— a recently released report from ProPublica.org is pointing the finger at Tyndall Air Force Base for decades of procrastination involving pollution at more than 100 sites.
U.S. Rep Clay Higgins wants bounty program for Asian carp in Louisiana
AP
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins wants Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to create a bounty program for Asian carp, an invasive fish species.
National
Minnesota's $5 billion case over 3M chemicals heads to trial
AP
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota officials will soon try to convince a jury that manufacturer 3M Co. should pay the state $5 billion to help clean up environmental damage that the state alleges was caused by pollutants the company dumped for decades.
NH to decide how to spend $31 million from VW in settlement
Union Leader
CONCORD — State officials are developing a plan for how to spend $31 million allocated to New Hampshire as the state’s piece of an unprecedented $14.7 billion settlement with Volkswagen for cheating on its emission control systems.
