State
Eastern Heights Residents in Grenada Rally Against the EPA
DeltaNewsTV
Residents of the Eastern Heights subdivision in Grenada feel as if their voices still are not being heard, even after decades of environmental contamination related to the former Rockwell International and Meritor Plant.
Pearl River Clean Sweep event to clean Pearl River
Picayune Item
The Pearl River Clean Sweep, in conjunction with the Pearl River Keeper, will hold events on Sept. 15 and 22 to remove trash along the Pearl River. There will be more than 30 different locations across multiple counties to choose from.
CREWS BATTLE BLAZE AT COLUMBUS SCRAP MATERIAL
WCBI
COLUMBUS, Miss (WCBI)- Fire crews are battling a blaze on Island Road.
Residents urged to participate in USACE scoping meeting
Vicksburg Post
Warren County residents will have an opportunity to comment on projects planned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District at a scoping meeting Sept. 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Vicksburg Convention Center.
13 years after Katrina, why is there still so much emptiness on the Coast?
WLOX
This year marks 13 years since Hurricane Katrina ripped into the coast, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The coast has made remarkable progress in our recovery, but there is still so much more to be done.
State Government
Lottery bill do-over passes House; heads to Bryant for signature
AP
The Mississippi House reversed itself Tuesday and passed a bill to create a state lottery in the Bible Belt state where churches have long opposed it.
Oil Spill
Senate easily passes BP bill bringing 75 percent of money to Coast
Sun Herald
The Mississippi Senate, by a wide margin, passed a bill that leaders said would bring 75 percent of the $750 million paid by BP for economic damages caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to the Coast.
Here are new details on Mississippi Aquarium’s attractions, construction progress
Sun Herald
The opening of the Mississippi Aquarium is more than a year away, but concrete structures are already going up on the red-dirt mounds at the downtown Gulfport site.
Get a sneak peek at Mississippi Aquarium under construction in Gulfport
Video
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE MISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM
WXXV
Contractors have been hard at work creating the Mississippi Aquarium in downtown Gulfport.
The aquarium will not only bring hundreds of aquatic wonders like alligators, otters, and dolphins to the Coast, but it will also bring economic growth.
Regional
Florida's Gulf Coast reels as red tide rolls on
Washington Post
SIESTA KEY, Fla. - Even as she sat under the brilliant Florida sun, her toes covered in sugar-white sand, Alex McShane wasn't exactly enjoying her summer vacation. Florida's worst red tide in more than a decade had turned the aqua-blue surf to a rusty dull brown.
National
EPA asks Supreme Court not to take up case on planet-warming chemicals
The Hill
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn’t want the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a court ruling that overturned the agency’s limits on certain Earth-warming chemicals used in air conditioners.
EPA head: New coal plant plan will 'level the playing field'
The Hill
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday said that the administration's newly proposed alternative to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan (CPP) will "level the playing field" for coal plants in an era where renewable fuels and liquid natural gas are growing in prominence.
Texas sues EPA over Bexar County non-attainment status
San Antonio Express-News
More than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency placed San Antonio in its “non-attainment” category because of persistently high levels of smog-producing ozone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn the federal designation.
Pentagon warns against EPA’s science proposal
The Hill
The Pentagon is criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to boost “transparency” standards for the science it uses in decisionmaking.
As Wildfires Burn Miles Away, Smog Blankets the Northwest
Spokane schools move practice inside, Seattle delays flights, and hospitals see more patients as air pollution becomes worse than Beijing
WSJ
SPOKANE, Wash.—On a recent morning in this city bred on the great outdoors, the halls of Mt. Spokane High School were filled with some 600 football players throwing spirals, cross-country runners doing laps, and marching band members twirling batons.
Press Releases
NFWF Announces Record $6.5 Million in Grants to Benefit Longleaf Pine Forest and Wildlife in Eight States across the Southeast
Twenty-eight grants will support efforts to conserve more than 350,000 acres of longleaf pine habitat and recover populations of at-risk wildlife
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 16, 2018) – The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced 28 conservation grants totaling a record $6.5 million to restore, enhance and protect the longleaf pine forest in eight Southeast states, benefitting species like the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and at-risk gopher tortoise.
All IOOS regional networks now NOAA-certified
Mariners, fishing and shipping industry can access federal-quality data from NOAA partners
NOAA has now certified the last of 11 Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) regional associations as Regional Information Coordination Entities. Data coming from all IOOS partners now adheres to common federal collection, storage and management standards, meaning it can be integrated with other data, and help make "big data" research and development possible.
Director Keogh Named 2018–2019 President
of the Environmental Council of the States
NORTH LITTLE ROCK—The Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), a nonpartisan association of state and territorial environmental agency leaders, announced today the election of Becky W. Keogh, Director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), as the 2018–2019 ECOS President.
