State
Local outdoorsman brings attention to trash behind Flowood business
WLBT
RANKIN COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - Trash in America’s lakes, rivers and oceans is a major problem, but one local man is making it his mission to protect our waterways.
Local man is on a mission to clean metro waterways
WLBT
RANKIN, MS (WLBT) - Trash in America’s lakes, rivers and oceans has become a major problem. Now one man is on a mission to clean our local waterways.
Pine Belt teachers chosen to receive environmental education grants
WDAM
PINE BELT (WDAM) - Mississippi Power announced Tuesday the names of 19 South Mississippi teachers that will receive grant money to help fund environmental education programs.
Airbus Helicopters unveils potential area expansion
Daily Journal
COLUMBUS – At the Airbus Helicopters facility in Columbus, company officials announced they would expand its connected services and its delivery and training services in 2019 and reiterated the importance of a contract with the U.S. Navy to produce the H135 training helicopter in Mississippi.
State Government
Bryant pushes teacher pay, school safety in State of State
AP
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant used his final State of the State speech Tuesday to look back on his two terms and to offer proposals for his final year in office.
Internet access expansion bill passes MS House
WDAM
JACKSON, MS (WDAM) - Legislation that would expand broadband access to rural Mississippians will head to the Senate after being passed by the Mississippi House of Representatives.
Regional
Ascension Wastewater close to finishing mandated upgrades; 'win-win' for environment
The Advocate
GONZALES — Ascension Wastewater Treatment and state environmental regulators have reached tentative settlement of longstanding compliance orders that required over $10 million in upgrades to more than 150 community sewer systems in Ascension, Livingston and East Baton Rouge parishes.
National
GAO investigating EPA's low enforcement numbers
The Hill
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched an investigation into declining enforcement actions against companies accused of violating EPA's pollution standards during the Trump administration.
Some states’ emissions would be higher under Trump climate rule, study finds
The Hill
Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., would see increased carbon dioxide emissions from power plants under the Trump administration’s proposed climate change rule for power plants, a new study predicted.
Senators consider former lobbyist as EPA's permanent chief
AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler’s past lobbying work for coal companies and other industries regulated by the agency is expected to draw scrutiny Wednesday when a Senate committee considers his nomination to the position.
EPA's Wheeler faces grilling over rule rollbacks
The Hill
Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler will face a Senate grilling Wednesday on the aggressive deregulatory actions he’s undertaken during the last six months as head of the agency.
Watchdog files ethics complaint against EPA head
The Hill
A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against EPA acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday over meetings held with past fossil fuel clients after he took over the agency.
