State
SOUTHERN STATE’S ENERGY BOARD MEETING
WXXV
Governor Bryant is on the Coast this week hosting the Southern States Energy Board annual meeting at the Beau Rivage.
Cowbell Cleanup offers game day volunteer opportunity
Starkville Daily News
An opportunity now exists for members of the Starkville and Mississippi State University communities and others interested in sustainability to make an impact on game days.
Solar power shines in Chickasaw County
Chickasaw Journal
Chickasaw County is rapidly becoming known as the solar power county of north Mississippi.
Executives with Silicon Ranch were in town Monday and conducted a tour of the Houston Solar Farm just north of town.
Big River on the rise
Vicksburg Post
Hurricane Florence may be dumping rain and causing flooding in the Carolinas and along the East Coast, but the heavy rains falling in the east are not affecting a current rise in the Mississippi River, the hydrologist from the National Weather Service Office in Jackson said.
State Government
Corrections, education, retirement system ask lawmakers for millions more
Clarion Ledger
Lawmakers on Monday began budget hearings with state agencies, the first step to setting next year's roughly $6 billion state budget.
State auditor report slams state Board of Dental Examiners for mismanagement
Clarion Ledger
A state auditor's report slams the state board that licenses and regulates dentists for mismanagement and urges more oversight.
Regional
Florence Pushes Some North Carolina Dams to the Brink
Officials have ordered evacuations near several dams; hundreds of thousands remain without power
WSJ
Florence causes coal ash spills in North Carolina
The Hill
Flooding from Hurricane Florence caused a pair of coal ash spills from a site near a power plant in North Carolina.
Pig Excrement Spills Into North Carolina Floodwater
Bloomberg
Hurricane-wracked North Carolina faced a health and environmental crisis after at least nine hog-waste lagoons were compromised and sewage plants across the state flooded, releasing millions of gallons of partially treated human discharge.
Gulf Hypoxia Task Force to convene in BR Tuesday
Fox 44
The Gulf Hypoxia Task Force is meeting in Baton Rouge Tuesday to address "dead zone" concerns in the Gulf of Mexico.
National
Watchdog: EPA asbestos protection for schoolchildren lagging
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is shifting money away from a congressionally mandated program meant to get harmful asbestos out of schools, even though the threat of contamination remains, the agency's internal watchdog said on Monday.
Maryland is taking the EPA to federal appeals court over air pollution coming from upwind states
Baltimore Sun
Maryland plans to take the Trump administration to federal appeals court now that the Environmental Protection Agency has rejected the state's calls that it do more to limit coal power plant emissions in upwind states.
Nation's oldest nuclear power plant shuts down
The Hill
The country's oldest nuclear power plan is shutting its doors.
New Jersey-based Oyster Creek Generating Station shut down on Monday, a month earlier than anticipated.
Shell to Lay Out Targets to Manage Methane Emissions
Company aims to limit methane emissions to less than 0.2% of total natural gas extracted
WSJ
LONDON— Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A 0.47% PLC said it will announce plans to lay out targets to manage its emissions of the greenhouse gas methane Monday, joining a handful of major oil companies that have made similar pledges this year.
State to study temporarily storing natural gas underground
AP
BISMARCK, N.D.
A research project will explore the possibility of temporarily storing natural gas in underground rock formations.
Press releases
USDA Partners to Improve Water and Wastewater Infrastructure for More than 442,000 Rural Americans Across 42 States
FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 17, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $392 million (PDF, 238 KB) to help rebuild and improve rural water and wastewater infrastructure in 42 states.
