State
MDEQ EXTENDS PUBLIC COMMENTS TIME FOR LANDFILL
Northside Sun
The public comment period, which was originally scheduled to end on September 26, has been extended to October 28 for residents to voice comments or concerns about NCL Waste’s plans to construct a third landfill in Madison County.
MDEQ: Avoid portions of Josey and Trim Cane creeks
Commercial Dispatch
STARKVILLE -- Two creeks on the northwest side of town are under a water contact advisory for an indefinite amount of time after a hole in a pipe caused a sewage spill.
MDEQ revises water contact advisory in Oktibbeha County
WTVA
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) - The state has extended the water contact advisory in Oktibbeha County.
WATER CONTACT ADVISORY ISSUED FOR JOSEY CREEK AND TRIM CRANE CREEK
WCBI
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has issued a water contact advisory Friday for parts of two creeks in Oktibbeha County.
One killed in Wayne County oil tank explosion
WDAM
WAYNE COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - One person was killed when two oil storage tanks exploded Friday morning in Wayne County, according to Sheriff Jody Ashley.
List of active burn bans in Mississippi
WTVA
Starkville - Ban of all outside burning, except grills
Wildfires burn acres from coast to Tennessee line
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - We are just days away from the official start of fall, a major wildfire season in the state.
Volunteers help clean up the Pearl River during 3rd annual Clean Sweep
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Saturday kicked off the Pearl Riverkeeper’s Pearl River Clean Sweep for the 3rd year in a row. Volunteers spent the morning collecting trash from 30 different locations along the Pearl River watershed.
President Trump declares 8 Mississippi counties federal disaster areas
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - President Donald Trump has declared eight Mississippi counties federal disaster areas.
Dozens join Youth Climate Strike on the steps of Capitol Building
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Chants and signs lead the Youth Climate Strike on the steps of the State Capitol Friday.
Regional
Freshwater from floods slams Gulf Coast seafood biz
AP
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Freshwater from Midwestern floods has killed oysters along the coasts of three states and cost Mississippi half of its blue crabs.
Endangered fish swept through spillway, returned to river
AP
For more than two sweltering August weeks, state and federal biologists worked to rescue endangered fish swept out of the Mississippi River during a flood fight that lasted for months. They waded or leaned out of boats with dip nets and went neck-deep into canals with seins to net endangered pallid sturgeon.
3M idles part of its Alabama plant after PFAS chemicals found in Tennesee River and ground water
StarTribune
3M Co. is idling some manufacturing at an Alabama plant while it works with regulators on compliance issues related to chemical byproducts discharged into the Tennessee River, company officials confirmed Friday.
North Alabama residents concerned with chicken sludge invading their properties
WHNT
MARSHALL COUNTY, Ala. - The combination of chemicals and chicken byproducts called "chicken sludge" is raising concerns in North Alabama.
National
23 States Sue Trump Administration In Escalating Battle Over Emissions Standards
NPR
Just two days after the Trump administration revoked California's right to set its own emissions standards for automobiles, the state has fired back.
Can a $1 million light-and-sound show stop invasive carp?
StarTribune
Inside a cramped shed alongside a lock and dam on the Mississippi River south of La Crosse, Wis., fisheries biologist Jeff Whitty flipped a switch.
A few yards away, at the foot of the lock, a dozen submerged speakers began blasting a repetitive drumbeat — a Pacman-like whomp, whomp, whomp — while underwater strobe lights began to pulse with bright flashes.
Struggling Farmers See Bright Spot in Solar
WSJ
Farmers are embracing another means of turning sunlight into revenue during a sharp downturn in crop prices: solar power.
