State
Jackson residents plagued by raw sewage
WAPT
A Jackson neighborhood is dealing with a sewer leak and one city councilman says its from subcontract work done almost a year ago.
Jackson residents demand a solution to ongoing raw sewage leak
WLBT
Residents of a Jackson community want to know who is responsible for repairing a broken sewer line in their neighborhood. Several residents along Sage Street said they have been dealing with raw sewage seeping into their yards for quite some time.
Community encouraged to get involved with trash pick up event for city of Oxford
Oxford Eagle
A team from Leadership Lafayette 2018 plans to clean up the community, and they need some helping hands.
Controversial Yazoo River Pumps project left out of $1.3 trillion omnibus package
Mississippi Matters blog
Retiring U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran received some touching tributes from other senators Thursday and will have the federal courthouse in Jackson named after him, the 10th longest serving U.S. Senator.
Stewart Farms Fresh Brings Aquaponics to Oxford
Oxford Eagle
Kim and Lee Stewart moved to Oxford in February with plans to open the first aquaponic farming operation in the state of Mississippi.
Warrior Walk to fight DIPG draws nearly 400 participants in Ocean Springs
WLOX
The inaugural DIPG Warrior Walk in Ocean Springs drew about 400 participants.
To many, this was a long time coming. The event stirred new hope that more awareness will finally lead to a cure.
State Government
Mississippi lawmakers near completion of budget, session
Clarion Ledger
Lawmakers reached agreement on the broad strokes of a roughly $6 billion state budget Saturday night, and planned to haggle out details and start passing budget bills Sunday.
INFRASTRUCTURE BILL DIES AS SESSION COMES TO A CLOSE
MPB
Despite another week of negotiations Mississippi lawmakers didn't reach an agreement on a plan to fix the state's infrastructure.
Top Mississippi lawmakers agree on nearly $250M bond package
AP
op Mississippi lawmakers said Saturday that they have agreed on a bond package of nearly $250 million to finance several projects.
Mississippi Names First Black Higher Education Commissioner
AP
The first-ever African American has been named to oversee Mississippi's eight public universities.
Regional
NC, Asheville air quality to get a boost from Volkswagen scandal settlement
Citizen-Times
‘De facto moratorium’ on sewage connections lifted in DeKalb
AJC
DeKalb County will resume reviewing applications to connect to the sewer system after taking time off to ensure compliance with the consent decree.
National
Ford manager picked for EPA’s international office
Detroit News
Washington — President Donald J. Trump intends to nominate Ford Motor Co.’s manager of global environmental policy to lead the Office of International and Tribal Affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the White House said Friday.
States threaten to sue Trump EPA for delay in enforcing landfill pollution rule
The Hill
Seven Democratic states on Friday threatened to sue the Trump administration for its delay in enforcing an Obama administration rule on air pollution from landfills.
EPA Tentatively Decides to Ease Vehicle Emission Standards
The agency faces an April 1 deadline for a final determination on tailpipe standards
WSJ
The Environmental Protection Agency has tentatively concluded that future vehicle emissions standards should be eased, a decision long lobbied for by car companies that argued looming regulations are too stringent and need revision.
EPA said to side with carmaker calls to ease fuel rules
Bloomberg
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that a landmark Obama-era effort to cut vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions is too aggressive and agrees with automakers that the standards should be revised, according to people familiar with the matter.
NRC: Company dismantling Genoa nuclear plant spilled tainted water into Mississippi River
LaCrosse Tribune
The tritium discovered last month in groundwater in Genoa was not the first radioactive material released in the decommissioning of the former Dairyland Power nuclear plant.
LaCrosseSolutions, the company in charge of the $85 million project, accidentally spilled 400 gallons of radioactive water into the Mississippi River last year, though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says there was little risk to public health.
Plan to Fight Lake Erie's Algae Would Force Changes on Farms
AP
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Voluntary steps farmers have taken to scale back the fertilizers feeding Lake Erie's massive algae blooms aren't working fast enough, Ohio Gov. John Kasich's administration said Friday while announcing a set of new proposals.
Here's why New Mexico's oil boom is raising a lot of questions about water
LA Times
Massive oil drilling rigs stretch across the horizon here like giant carnival rides — 85 in all, lighting the night sky across two counties that sit atop one of the biggest fossil fuel deposits in the nation.
Tijuana sewage spills have been an environmental problem for decades so what's the solution?
SD Union-Tribune
There was not a cloud in sight on this winter morning as surfers rode the waves south of the U.S. border fence, off of Playas de Tijuana. Anna Lucía López Avedoy stood on the street above, focusing instead on the stream pouring from a storm drain, splashing down a small rocky cliff, trickling down the sand and finally into the Pacific Ocean.
At some Philly homes, toilets get flushed into the city's drinking water source. The underground detectives are on the case
Philadelphia Inquirer
Two weeks ago, Joe Ferretti, a Philadelphia Water Department supervisor, pried open a manhole cover next to a scenic Schuylkill River bank, flicked on a flashlight, and peered down.
Ferretti saw evidence that sewage was flowing freely into the river at a stone outfall known as S050204.
Contaminant found in drinking water of 11 properties near landfill
MLive
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Test results have confirmed the presence of toxic chemicals in the wells of nearly a dozen homes near a closed Kent County landfill.
