State
Meridian train derailment causes 350-gallon fuel spill
Meridian Star
A Kansas City Southern train slipped off the tracks Thursday afternoon causing more than 350 gallons of fuel to spill.
DETAILS UNCERTAIN HOW ONE LAKE DEVELOPMENT UNFOLDS
Northside Sun
From new islands to waterfront property, the One Lake Project promises to create new economic and recreational opportunities for the entire metro area.
La. meetings set on controversial Pearl River dam proposal
Times-Picayune
Proponents of a controversial flood control project on the upper Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi, will discuss the project with downriver audiences during meetings in Slidell and Baton Rouge.
Sand beach recovering from Hurricane Nate damage
WLOX
The Harrison County sand beach is looking the best is has in months. Hurricane Nate did a number on the beach in October 2017.
Congressional bills call for broadened duck season framework
Clarion Ledger
Mirror bills have been introduced in Congress which, if passed, will allow states to end duck seasons later and extend opportunity for youth, veterans and active military personnel into February.
MISSISSIPPI STRONG: Turtle Rescuers
WLBT
There is a couple in Florence who’ve taken on an unusual mission in life: turtle doctoring. It started out as a one-time good-deed but has turned into a full-time operation.
WNV case confirmed in Mississippi
AP
The Mississippi State Department of Health has reported the first human case of West Nile virus for 2018. It was recorded in Hinds County.
Jackson Zoo Ice Cream Safari this weekend
WJTV
I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream! It's a perennial favorite saying for summer.
Oil Spill
Texas Releases Plan To Use BP Oil Spill Money For Harvey Recovery
Houston Public Media
Texas has released a plan for how it wants to use some settlement money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Hurricane Harvey recovery.
Regional
A tiny sea worm could be a gateway for human exposure to neurotoxin
Times-Picayune
Humans could consume a neurotoxin produced by algae through a food chain of creatures that begins with a tiny sea worm, according to a study published last week by a Louisiana researcher.
Louisiana’s whooping crane comeback: 5 chicks this year
AP
In a southwest Louisiana crawfish pond, two endangered whooping crane chicks peck about for crawfish, insects, plants and other food. They're only 2 months old, but they dwarf the full-grown great egrets nearby. Their tall white parents bugle alarm at an ATV and people across the pond, and all four cranes move farther away.
National
26 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back in the Trump Era
Bloomberg
President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda has pushed at least 26 environmental regulations issued during the Obama administration out of the queue.
We Already Spent the Money, Keep Air Toxics Rule: AEP, Duke to EPA
Bloomberg
American Electric Power Co., Duke Energy Corp., and others say they can’t recoup money they spent to meet requirements to cut mercury and other air toxics from their facilities and therefore want the EPA to retain the rule as is.
Abraham bill has plan to curb Chronic Wasting Disease. Fatal ailment is in 25 states
News-Star
Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, has introduced a bill aimed at stopping the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
Opinion
CONSIDER THIS: Stop the Spillway Littering
WLBT
Less than one year ago, September 2017, the Ross Barnett Spillway was closed to fishing so volunteers could pick up trash and debris along the Pearl River. Now the area next to the spillway is once again covered in litter.
MISSISSIPPI PERS INSATIABLE APPETITE
Northside Sun
Nearly every time the board that oversees Mississippi’s Public Employees’ Retirement System jacks up the rate that the taxpayers have to kick in to keep the system financially viable, it says that the latest increase should provide long-term solvency.
And every time they are wrong.
Press Releases
Interior Announces Region-wide Oil and Gas Lease Sale for Gulf of Mexico
Final Notice of Sale outlines all available areas in federal waters
7/12/2018
WASHINGTON – In support of President Donald J. Trump's America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer approximately 78 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development.
