State
FEDS ADD A WEEK FOR COMMENTS ABOUT SUPERFUND PROPOSAL
WTVA
GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — Federal officials are giving people another week to comment about whether a polluted Mississippi industrial site should go on the national Superfund cleanup list.
Wildlife officials meet Warren County hunters, residents concerned over chronic wasting disease
WLBT
WARREN COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) -On Monday, Wildlife officials met with hunters and residents in Warren County who are concerned and confused over Chronic Wasting Disease. The meeting came after an infected deer was found in Issaquena County last month, marking the first time the disease has ever been documented in Mississippi.ick dear let us know because again this is a continuous process,” said Walsh.
TURKEY CREEK LANDMARK TO BE RESTORED
WXXV
A National Park Service grant for nearly half a million dollars has been set aside for the restoration of the old Phoenix Naval Stores in the Gulfport community of Turkey Creek.
Located on Creosote Road, the naval stores, or ‘Yaryan’ office building, has been a deteriorating and often condemned eyesore throughout the years.
Bovina youth find buried mastodon jaw
Vicksburg Post
When most students go on spring break, they go to the beach or take a vacation with the family.
Shawn and Caid Sellers and their cousin Michael Mahalitc became dinosaur hunters — in a sense. While walking through a plowed area on their family’s property in Bovina, the boys uncovered a relic from earth’s ancient history; the lower left jawbone of a mastodon.
State Government
Hyde-Smith will accept U.S. Senate appointment at Wednesday ceremony in Brookhaven
Daily Leader
State agriculture commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith will become Mississippi’s first female U.S. senator Wednesday, accepting the job at a ceremony at the old Brookhaven train depot at noon, according to numerous sources.
Oil Spill
America's newest beach has no hotels or tiki bars
WVUE
Sand streams out of a pipe on a barrier island 35 minutes out of Cocodrie, forming Louisiana's newest beach.
Regional
Groundwater board hears calls for more aquifer protection
Commercial Appeal
With Memphis-area utility customers already absorbing higher bills to fund the protection of groundwater resources, private well operators who tap local aquifers also should pay for the water they pump, speakers at a public hearing said Monday evening.
VW Settlement Information Sessions Planned
Coastal Review
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is holding five stakeholder information sessions, including one in Wilmington, to discuss the proposed plan to use the state’s share of a national settlement with Volkswagen.
NC may test food near Chemours plant for industrial chemical
AP
RALEIGH, N.C.
North Carolina regulators are discussing tests to measure how much of a little-studied industrial compound may have gotten into backyard garden vegetables near a plant that's been producing that and similar chemicals for decades, a state environmental official said Monday.
National
EPA pledges new plan on contaminant from non-stick coatings
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal environmental regulators say they’ll consult with states on managing contamination from a range of long-used non-stick coatings.
McDonald's plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 36% by 2030
USA Today
The Golden Arches are going green.
McDonald's has pledged to slash its greenhouse gas emissions at its restaurant and office locations by 36% by 2030 down from its 2015 levels, plus cut 31% per metric ton of food and packaging.
This Father-Daughter Team Says It Has a Cheaper, Safer Way to Bury Nuclear Waste
Bloomberg
A case study in the annals of political paralysis has been Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, a would-be repository for the country’s nuclear waste that’s never quite come to serve that purpose. The debate over whether to store spent nuclear fuel inside Yucca has entered its fourth decade, and rumblings from the White House and Congress suggest lots more ineffectual arguing ahead. That is, unless the Mullers get their way.
Press releases
Deadline to Comment on Proposed Listing of the Rockwell Grenada Site to the Superfund National Priorities List Extended to Mar. 26, 2018
03/19/2018
ATLANTA (March 19, 2018) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the extension of the public comment period on the proposed listing of the former Rockwell International Wheel & Trim site in Grenada, Miss., to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).
EPA to Convene National Leadership Summit to Take Action on PFAS
03/19/2018
WASHINGTON — Today, in a letter sent to governors of 56 states and territories, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to host a National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. to take action on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). PFAS is a category of man-made chemicals that have been widely used to make products because of their stain-resistant, waterproof and/or nonstick properties.
