State
Spillway recreation area closed due to flooding
WLBT
The Spillway recreation area is closed due to flooding. This closure affects fishermen, not motorists who travel on the spillway.
Heavy rains cause millions in damage
AP
An early estimate shows Mississippi has at least $5 million in damage from heavy rains that have soaked parts of the state since last week.
State Government
Candidates start qualifying for 2019 Mississippi elections
AP
Candidates are starting to file for statewide and regional offices and legislative seats in Mississippi.
Bryant taps jobs agency leader for Workers Comp Commission
AP
The director of the Mississippi Department of Employment Security is being nominated for the state Workers Compensation Commission.
Oil Spill
Jackson County lands purchased with funds from oil spill settlement
WLOX
Fifteen hundred acres of land in Jackson County will get a makeover thanks to funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement allocated to Mississippi.
FUNDING AND LAND ACQUIRED TO HELP CONSERVATION
WXXV
The Gulf Coast is finally getting the relief they need to help restore critical ecosystems that were destroyed in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Oil spill money pays for 1,500 new acres for Mississippi Coast wildlife areas
Sun Herald
More than 1,500 acres have been purchased to protect coastal wildlife areas in Jackson County using money from the 2010 BP oil spill, officials announced Wednesday.
National
‘Not a problem you can run away from’: Communities confront the threat of unregulated chemicals in their drinking water
Washington Post
PARCHMENT, Mich. — The day this small town told its residents to stop drinking the water, Jennifer and Justin Koehler decided to sell their white clapboard house and move their two children elsewhere.
Proposed Changes to EPA’s Stormwater Permit for Construction Sites
National Law Review
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its intention to modify the 2017 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Construction Stormwater Discharges (2017 CGP).
House Dems formalize climate committee plans without Green New Deal language
The Hill
House Democrats have formally proposed creating a new committee on climate change, without many of the main factors that progressives wanted in the panel’s structure.
Fracking’s Secret Problem—Oil Wells Aren’t Producing as Much as Forecast
Data analysis reveals thousands of locations are yielding less than their owners projected to investors; ‘illusory picture’ of prospects
WSJ
Thousands of shale wells drilled in the last five years are pumping less oil and gas than their owners forecast to investors, raising questions about the strength and profitability of the fracking boom that turned the U.S. into an oil superpower.
Press Releases
Mississippi Acquires Land In Grand Bay With Deepwater Horizon Settlement Funds
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Funding Enables Protection of Coastal Habitat at Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge and National Estuarine Research Reserve
JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. — After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history, the first land acquisition in the Grand Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat Management Project (Project) has occurred.
