State
County wants to find tire dumpers
New Albany Gazette
Union County supervisors and law enforcement officials plan to offer a reward leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever dumped about 75 large truck and tractor tires in the creek on CR 158 in the Jug Ford and Fairfield area Saturday.
Cleveland Board Discusses What Its Trash Is Worth
DeltaDailyNews
What is your trash, or more specifically, the removal of your trash, worth?
Supervisors purchase new trackable garbage bins
Itawamba County Times
Supervisors have approved the purchase of 7,500 carts that will be utilized as part of the county’s upgraded garbage collection system.
BANG FOR THE BUCK: HUNTING BIG BUSINESS IN MISSISSIPPI
WCBI
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI)- One of the biggest money makers in Mississippi doesn’t happen on Main Street.
State Government
REP. NOLAN METTETAL NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION
WTVA
PANOLA COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) - Mississippi House Representative Nolan Mettetal will not seek re-election, he confirms with WTVA.
Regional
Irrigation: A game-changer for Mid-South agriculture
“The goal is to ensure that the Delta will have water now and in the future.”
Delta Farm Press
1980 was a pivotal year for agriculture in the Mid-South. After a relatively wet June, the rains stopped across most of the region for all of July and well into August, and temperatures soared to 105 and 106 for days on end.
National
INSIGHT: PFAS Challenges Remain at EPA for Wheeler
Bloomberg
The Environmental Protection Agency and Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler remain under pressure to formulate new cleanup and drinking water standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
EPA plans roundtable in Kalamazoo on PFAS contamination
Detroit News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to hold a roundtable in Kalamazoo on Friday with state and local stakeholders on drinking-water contamination by a potentially harmful class of fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.
New EPA rule strikes language listing impact of climate change on children
The Hill
The Trump administration’s latest rule weakening the way a greenhouse gas is regulated in cooling units also strips out language on how climate change affects children, new documents show.
Dam Threatens to Fail on Remote Arizona Reservation
Remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa cause severe flooding in area
WSJ
More than 60 people have evacuated a Native American reservation in southern Arizona after record flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa threatened to cause an earthen dam there to fail, officials said.
Press Releases
Associated Press Issues Correction To False Reporting
10/03/2018
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Yesterday, the Associated Press (AP) falsely reported that the Trump EPA was proposing a new rule to “weaken U.S. radiation regulations.” The headline of the story, “EPA says a little radiation may be healthy,” was not only wrong, but contrary to information provided to the reporter by the EPA press office in response to her inquiries..
NFWF and Wells Fargo Announce $2 Million in Grants to Help Communities Better Prepare for and Respond to Natural Disasters
Projects will help communities address impacts of a changing climate through conservation and capacity building
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 3, 2018) – Wells Fargo and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $2 million in grants to eight nonprofit organizations to help communities become more resilient in the face of conditions associated with a changing climate, including rising sea levels, water quantity and quality issues, and extended hurricane and fire seasons.
ADEQ Partners with Bipartisan Policy Center to Present
Overview of the Affordable Clean Energy Rule
NORTH LITTLE ROCK—The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) has partnered with Blair Beasley, Associate Director of Energy for the Bipartisan Policy Center, to present a webinar to Arkansas citizens and the regulated community that will give an overview of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Affordable Clean Energy Rule, also known as ACE.
The webinar will take place on October 10, 2018, and will begin at 9:00 AM CDT. The webinar is open to the public and will address the following topics: an introduction to the proposed ACE Rule, a comparison of ACE and the Clean Power Plan, and an outline of regulatory and legal next steps. To participate in the webinar, visit https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/807174893.
Gulf State Senators Urge Fairness for Gulf of Mexico Mineral Development Program
Coastal Senators Argue States Should Receive Equal Revenue From Federal Mineral Development Within Their Borders
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Doug Jones, D-Ala., Richard Shelby, R-Ala., John Cornyn, R-Texas, John Kennedy, R-La., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., have asked the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to ensure coastal states receive their fair share of revenues from any new federal mineral reserves development.
FIRST SCHOOL BUSES PURCHASED FROM VOLKSWAGEN SETTLEMENT ARE PROPANE-POWERED
LAFAYETTE, La. — Louisiana is the first state to release its Volkswagen settlement fund dollars, and Lafayette Parish Schools has become the first recipient.
