State
Meeting on proposed Progress poultry farm set
Enterprise-Journal
A representative from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality will meet Monday with residents concerned about a proposed poultry farm in Progress.
The meeting will take place at 6 p.m. at Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 2063 Shady Grove Road, Osyka, and the public is invited, said Bill Magee, a resident who opposes the farm.
Le Poultry of D’Iberville plans to build eight chicken houses at 1159 Pumping Station Road.
Residents opposed to the plan met last week with DEQ in Jackson.
Man fighting for 2nd landfill says taxpayers are getting 'hosed.' That's idiotic, rival says
Sun Herald
A landfill owner says Hancock County taxpayers "are getting hosed" because there is just one landfill that can take construction debris.
Boudin files notice of appeal against county
Sea Coast Echo
Boudin's Environmental Waste, LLC and Robert Joseph (Joey) Boudin, Jr. on Thursday filed a notice of appeal and bill of exceptions in Hancock County Circuit Court in response to the Hancock County Board of Supervisors' April 2 decision to deny Boudin's request to upgrade his dump site on Rifle Range Road to a Class One.
Residents readying for city cleanup on Earth Day
Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — Litter remains one of Natchez’s most frustrating problems for both residents and public of×cials, but both have a chance to do something about it on Earth Day.
Volunteers help to keep Biloxi clean
WLOX
Picking up what’s left behind.
A group of people from a new gym in Biloxi spent the morning cleaning up along Highway 90.
The crew from Brantley Ellison Fitness picked up trash on the beach, in the median and along the sidewalks from Edgewater Mall to the coliseum.
Mississippi black bears: how to keep them out
NewsMS
Recently there have been more black bear sightings in Mississippi.
In 2002, there were about 50 bears residing in the state, and that number has more than tripled today.
Mississippi Audubon at 20: Sure, there’s birdwatching, but conservation is serious business
Mississippi Today
Sarah Pacyna was monitoring whale sharks in Belize when she became concerned with migratory species and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
National
Shipping Regulators Reach Deal to Cut Carbon Emissions
Historic pact aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2050; the U.S. and Saudi Arabia offer only objections to otherwise unanimous agreement
WSJ
The shipping industry made a historic step toward cleaner air on Friday with a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2050, after a politically charged debate at the industry’s global regulator in London.
Shipping and aviation were excluded from the Paris climate agreement adopted under a United Nations framework in 2015, with governments entrusting the International Maritime Organization to come up with a consensus on carbon reduction measures from ocean going vessels.
Trump administration cuts enforcement of Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Washington Post
The Trump administration made it clear this week that it is sapping the strength of a century-old law to protect birds, issuing guidance that the law would not be used as it has been to hold people or companies accountable for killing the animals.
A $76,000 Monthly Pension:
Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash
Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted
NY Times
A public university president in Oregon gives new meaning to the idea of a pensioner.
Joseph Robertson, an eye surgeon who retired as head of the Oregon Health & Science University last fall, receives the state’s largest government pension.
It is $76,111.
Per month.
Opinion
Deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico need protection
Sun Herald
BY KENDALL DIX
Gulf Restoration Network
Mississippians have a unique opportunity to help protect deep sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico that were harmed by the BP drilling disaster.
Press releases
WATCH ‘35 MILLION YEARS DOWN THE CHICKASAWHAY’ APRIL 26 ON MPB TELEVISION
JACKSON, Miss. – The Chickasawhay River in southeast Mississippi is a world-renown treasure trove of the Earth’s history, and in a special Mississippi Public Broadcasting original documentary titled “35 Million Years Down the Chickasawhay,” some of the river’s ancient discoveries are revealed. Watch the documentary at 7 p.m. April 26 and at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. April 29 on MPB Television.
