State
Wreck involving 18-wheeler spills oil and fuel on U.S. 49, fire marshal says
Sun Herald
The driver of an 18-wheeler escaped his overturned vehicle with the help of local fire services early Saturday morning.
...Saucier Fire and the Harrison County Fire Services, along with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, worked the accident.
Sharp-toothed river catch perplexes fishermen
Enterprise-Journal
Jakevion Brown and friends were fishing in the Tangipahoa River at Highway 24 last week when they caught something quite unlike the usual bream, bass and catfish.
Students lend a hand, learn more about hatchery
Daily Journal
TUPELO – A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work, according to an old saying.
For Lee County agriculture students, a day chest deep in a muddy pond seining catfish is better than a good day in class.
How do dolphins fly to Gulfport? With help from the Seabees.
Sun Herald
Three trained bottlenose dolphins arrived in Gulfport on Monday all the way from San Diego, California.
Snakes alive: Area photographer offers an intimate look at 'beautiful animals'
Commercial Dispatch
So here we were, Dispatch photographer Luisa Porter and I, trailing Tuesday in a second car behind Robert Lewis and his wife, Keats. The waning sun was headed to bed, draining light from the thick forest lining the Noxubee Refuge roadside in Oktibbeha County. We were cruising for snakes, not sure what to expect. Suddenly, brake lights ahead flashed red and Robert, the snake hunter, pulled over. He'd spotted something. He often does.
U.S. ARMY RENEWS CONTRACT WITH AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
WCBI
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – For the next 3 years, the sky is the limit for Airbus Helicopters in Lowndes County.
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS WEEK: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
MPB
Today marks the start of Hurricane Preparedness Week in Mississippi. Emergency management officials expect a busy season and offer some tips.
Regional
Officials: Syrah will be safe for environment
Nachez Democrat
VIDALIA — Despite an Australian company’s failed efforts to locate a graphite processing facility in Port Manchac, Louisiana, local of×cials say they have done their homework and have no concerns about a similar facility the same company plans to locate in Vidalia.
Pollution controls don't prove as costly as critics forecast
Chattanooga Times Free Press
America's biggest public utility has completed the closing and cleanup of its aging fleet of coal plants to comply with clean air requirements and has done so while keeping power rate increases below the rate of inflation.
Clean Power Plan comments filed
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The state, the Sierra Club and other stakeholders have submitted comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan.
NC Settles Environmental Racism Complaint Involving Hog Farms
WFAE
North Carolina officials are resolving a complaint of environmental racism by promising tougher oversight of industrial swine operations blamed for polluting the air and water.
Light earthquake shakes Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana coast
AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A light earthquake has shaken the Gulf of Mexico south of the Louisiana coast.
East Tennessee girl finds 475-million-year-old fossil
WATE
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) - An East Tennessee youngster's discovery turned out to be an artifact of a time gone by.
National
It has been more than a year since EPA took down its climate website for 'updating'
Washington Post
The news came on a Friday evening in late April last year: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had removed an informational website about climate change, taking down a page that had been up, in some form, for nearly two decades and under three presidents.
The man who could replace Scott Pruitt
Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, who could take command at EPA if Pruitt leaves, is 'like Mike Pence is to Trump,' says one person who has worked with him.
Politico
The man poised to take the reins at the Environmental Protection Agency if Scott Pruitt falls to scandal is a longtime Washington insider and coal lobbyist who would pursue the same anti-regulation agenda — only without all of Pruitt’s baggage.
Fourth Pruitt Aide Leaving EPA
Bloomberg
The fourth departure this week of an Environmental Protection Agencyofficial was announced on Friday, in a move suggesting continued fallout from the controversies swirling around Administrator Scott Pruitt.
New Interior guidance prohibits telling developers Endangered Species Act permits are mandatory
The Hill
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) staff can no longer advise builders they need to obtain a permit mandated by law to maintain endangered species habitat, according to new Interior Department guidance.
Illinois to sue EPA for exempting Foxconn plant from pollution controls
Reuters
Illinois’ Attorney General said on Friday she plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allowing a proposed Foxconn Technology Co Ltd plant in neighboring Wisconsin to operate without stringent pollution controls.
EPA investigates possible groundwater contamination in central Wisconsin as worries grow
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigated potential groundwater contamination in central Wisconsin this week after longstanding complaints over the health impact farms may pose to drinking water.
Exotic fish native to China, Russia found in Virginia reservoir
Fox News
A northern snakehead fish was found in a reservoir in Virginia, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) confirmed Friday.
