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State
Living shoreline installed at Camp Wilkes to prevent further erosion
WLOX
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - It’s been two years since Phil Seymour took over as camp manager at Camp Wilkes. He said in this time, he’s seen three to four feet of shoreline disappear from erosion.
CORROSIVE CHEMICAL SPILLS ONTO COLUMBUS STREET
WCBI
The Lowndes County Emergency Management Director said Sodium Hydroxide spilled onto College Street near the Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church. It’s a downtown neighborhood, where families said their kids play.
Photo: College Street cleanup
Commercial Dispatch
Clean-up crews clear sodium hydroxide on College Street between Third and Fourth streets Saturday. The sodium hydroxide, which is a substance used to make soaps, leaked from a truck Friday afternoon, said Lowndes County Emergency Management Director Cindy Lawrence. EMA, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and Columbus Fire and Rescue crews spent Saturday cleaning the mess. The sodium hydroxide is not dangerous and will not hurt people or damage buildings or yards.
Focus: Garbage piling up in Adams County; relief on the way
Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — Garbage is piling up along some streets in Adams County as the county’s contract with Waste Pro is nearing an end.
Commission takes final vote on mandatory harvest reporting
Clarion Ledger
The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took a final vote on mandatory harvest reporting for wild turkeys and it's now the law of the land. According to MDWFP Wild Turkey Program coordinator Adam Butler, it's a win for turkey hunters.
COOPER TIRES OPENS NEW MISSISSIPPI WAREHOUSE
WCBI
BYHALIA (WCBI) – Cooper Tire is expanding its footprint in Mississippi with the opening of a new warehouse.
State Government
No state agencies to get cuts in Bryant's 2020 budget
Daily Journal
State agencies will not see a cut in the next fiscal year, as Gov. Phil Bryant has proposed a budget of $5.802 billion.
How’s the Mississippi Coast economy doing? Here’s the 2018 report card.
Sun Herald
Last year’s challenge was to bring BP money to the Coast and with that success in the pocket, the crowd at the 2nd annual State of the Coast Economy was called to a new action. The new challenge is to create a strategic plan that will focus South Mississippi’s direction for the next 10-15 years.
Oil Spill
RESTORE Hancock: Millions in BP funds coming to Coast
Sea Coast Echo
State and local officials announced this week that Hancock County is about to reap huge dividends from the restoration funds BP is paying in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster -- including $4 million for Pearl River Community College's workforce development project at Stennis International Airport.
Regional
Coast Guard responds to crude oil spill into marsh near Dulac
Times-Picayune
The U.S. Coast Guard, state and federal agencies are responding to an oil spill in the marsh near Dulac, Louisiana, according to a news release.
Tennessee mother plans to sue EPA over son's death from hazardous chemical
Tennessean
A Tennessee mother is taking steps to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for apparently failing to finalize a ban on a chemical that killed her 21-year-old son last year.
National
Trump plans to nominate Andrew Wheeler, former coal lobbyist, as EPA chief
Washington Post
President Trump said Friday that he intends to nominate former industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as the Environmental Protection Agency’s next administrator, a move that would ensure a continued deregulatory push at the agency.
Fantastic Caverns hopes vent holes will keep toxic chemical out of cave
Springfield News-Leader
A cancer-causing chemical that leaked from a now-closed industrial site near the Springfield airport has reached some water wells northeast of there and is now showing up at Fantastic Caverns.
World Toilet Day highlights global sanitation crisis
AP
Poor countries around the world are facing a dangerous shortage of toilets that puts millions of live at risk, according to campaigners marking World Toilet Day by urging governments and businesses to invest more in sanitation.
Volkswagen to Pour Billions Into Electric Cars
WSJ
BERLIN— Volkswagen AG will invest nearly $150 billion over the next five years, with about one-third earmarked for the development of electric cars, self-driving vehicles and digital services, as the German auto maker responds to growing competition from Silicon Valley.
Press Releases
Disease Could Devastate Deer Populations and Mississippi Hunting Industry
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., today wrote a letter signed by eight of their colleagues to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to request their departments work with the hunting and sporting community to respond to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
Lower Mississippi River stages above normal
VICKSBURG, Mississippi - Protecting people, infrastructure, commerce, agriculture and energy are always at the forefront of what we do at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division (MVD).
