State
Water coming over and through dam on Robins Lake Road
Natchez Democrat
Adams County Emergency Management crews were on the scene at Robins Lake Road Thursday night monitoring the dam that had a hole in it and water coming over the top, officials said.
Flash Flood Warning issued for possible dam failure at Robbins Lake in Adams County
WLBT
ADAMS COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - The National Weather Service has issued an Flash Flood Warning for a possible dam failure in Adams County.
Robbins Lake Dam in Danger of Breaking
WJTV
ADAMS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Adams County Emergency Management has closed Robbins Lake Road after water was seen coming over the dam.
Plan would force Army Corps to study options to opening Bonnet Carré
Sun Herald
South Mississippi continues to fight for a voice in Bonnet Carré Spillway operations with a new proposal that would require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study environmental impacts on the Mississippi Sound and adjust flood-control plans accordingly.
Battling giant salvinia: These Barnett Reservoir boat ramps are closed due to low water
Clarion Ledger
Several boat launches are closed as officials continue to battle giant salvinia in Ross Barnett Reservoir.
2010 started in disaster. But did the decade get better for the Coast?
Sun Herald
With the ending of the fast-paced decade that was the 2010s, the obvious question is: How did the Mississippi Gulf Coast fare?
State Government
MDA director McCullough to return to private sector
Daily Journal
After nearly four years on the job, Mississippi Development Authority Executive Director Glenn McCullough Jr. will step down effective Jan. 30 and return to the private sector.
Oil Spill
Nine years of research on BP spill, dispersants documents potential human health, mental health effects
NOLA.com
Nearly a decade of BP-funded research has uncovered a laundry list of potential health effects resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including possible links between obesity and dispersants used to break up the oil; the discovery of dangerous bacteria in tar balls still washing up on Gulf beaches; and a new understanding of the links between disasters and the mental health problems of both fishers and oilfield workers.
Regional
Duke Energy Agrees to Coal-Ash Cleanup Settlement
WSJ
RALEIGH, N.C.— Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to move 80 million tons of coal ash to lined landfills at six power plant sites in what state regulators are calling the biggest cleanup of its type in U.S. history.
Earthquake rattles Georgia, geologists say
Sun Herald
A 2.0-magnitude earthquake rattled part of Georgia on Thursday night, geologists say.
The tremor hit east of Stockbridge at about 8:15 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
National
Backlog of toxic ‘Superfund’ clean-ups grows under Trump administration
AP
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays.
Broad-Ranging PFAS Chemicals Bill on House Floor Next Week
Bloomberg
A bill that would require the EPA to regulate PFAS, an emerging family of chemicals contaminating U.S. municipal and private water supplies, is slated to be the first major legislation that the House will take up in 2020.nufactured PFAS at any point since 2011 to submit a report to the agency.
