State
Sewage smell plaguing west Jackson neighborhood
WLBT
Residents on Moon and Prosperity Streets in Jackson are having a hard time smelling their community gardens. That's because many of the folks living there are also living near raw sewage.
Starkville may consider swap to garbage bins
Commercial Dispatch
Starkville may consider switching from providing garbage bags to residents in favor of 96-gallon tip carts after Starkville Sanitation and Environmental Services Director Calvin Ware and Mayor Lynn Spruill floated the idea during a Board of Aldermen work session on Friday.
Itawamba County moves ahead with garbage upgrade
Itawamba County Times
FULTON – Supervisors are moving forward with plans to upgrade Itawamba County’s garbage pickup to a semi-automated system.
Truck recovered after being stuck in the water all week on Biloxi Beach
WLOX
A military-style vehicle was recovered after being completely surrounded by water at the beach in Biloxi.
State Government
Analysis: Even modest revenue growth good news for lawmakers
AP
End-of-the year revenue collections suggest Mississippi's lawmakers could have a little extra money to spend when they return for their election-year session in January 2019.
Oil Spill
After Deepwater Horizon, a new BP emerges
Washington Post
Eight years ago, the oil giant BP was struggling to cap an out-of-control exploration well that was gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Tar balls had washed ashore on the Texas coast. A flotilla of boats was trying to skim or burn oil from the water's surface.
Regional
EPA favors $2.5 million plan to clean up soil at dry-cleaners site
Commercial Appeal
Despite an emergency excavation and cleanup two years ago, soil at a former dry-cleaners site near the University of Memphis remains fouled with high levels of toxic chemicals, studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show.
'Poop train' landfill's permit renewed after company says no to New York sludge
Al.com
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has renewed the general operating permit for the Big Sky Landfill in Adamsville after the landfill informed the department it would no longer accept biosolids or sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants in New York and New Jersey.
Building barriers: Inside the race to save Louisiana's first line of storm defense
Times-Picayune
Ten miles from Louisiana's receding shore, on an island that was on the verge of sinking away, new land is growing at a rate of 200 feet per day.
Swipe the photos and see Louisiana barrier islands before and after restoration
Times-Picayune
Breakdown: How the air you breathe can become dangerous
WMC
In the summer months, air quality alerts get issued more than any other time of the year. The bad air quality is caused by increased pollutants, which in turn increase our ozone levels. The air quality index is used to measure the levels of ozone in the air.
Algae, seaweed discolor Florida waters and beaches
AP
STUART, Fla. -- Tourism, fishing and public health are being threatened by contaminants discoloring stretches of beaches at the southern end of the Florida peninsula.
National
New EPA Head Andrew Wheeler Vows to Be ‘Stabilizing Force’ After Pruitt Turmoil
Lobbyists say longtime Washington insider will likely better marshal bureaucracy to realize Trump agenda
WSJ
Energy companies and trade groups harbor one big hope for the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency: a steady hand.
New EPA chief draws sharp contrast to Pruitt
The Hill
Andrew Wheeler quickly made waves in his first week as the interim head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), drawing a sharp contrast with his predecessor.
Wheeler was tapped to lead the agency last week when scandal-plagued Administrator Scott Pruitt stepped down.
Seafood Restaurants’ Leftover Shells to Become ‘Living Barrier Reef’ on Long Island
Conservationists hope to reinforce area’s natural barrier islands, mitigate flooding from storm surges
WSJ
A Long Island town has devised the latest defense against tropical storms: seafood scraps.
Officials and environmentalists from the Long Island town of Hempstead tossed mesh bags full of thousands of discarded clam and oyster shells into the bay off Lido Beach on Thursday.
Miners Test Greener Ways to Dig
Alcoa, Rio Tinto and others seek environmentally friendlier ways to make metals amid pressure from customers
WSJ
Miners are considering new ways to make the dirt they dig up green.
Opinion
One Lake project will become 'One Trashy Lake'
Will Selman, Guest Columnist
Clarion Ledger
I have spent the last couple of summers researching on the Pearl River around Jackson, and I wonder if the proponents of the One Lake Project have stepped on the riverbanks along this stretch. Have they seen the massive amounts of human trash and waste?
The Coast is tired of waiting for BP money. It is time for action.
Editorial – Sun Herald
The Coast has waited far too long to learn the fate of the $700 million that has yet to be spent out of a $750 million settlement for economic damages from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Press releases
EPA Prepares for 2018 Hurricane Season, Building on Lessons Learned from Sustained Emergency Responses in 2017
07/13/2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has joined partners across federal, tribal, state, and local governments in preparation for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.
