State
MDEQ head resigns before landfill vote
Madison County Journal
The executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced his resignation last Friday, effective the day before the MDEQ board is set to vote on a controversial third landfill in Madison County.
Federal Fisheries Disaster Relief Program introduced
WLOX
Washington, DC. (WLOX) - Ensuring a speedy disaster relief is at the heart of the Fishery Failures: Urgently Needed Disaster Declarations Act (Fishery FUNDD Act).
Natchez Trace Parkway to conduct prescribed burns
Daily Journal
The Natchez Trace Parkway will conduct several small prescribed fires during the month of January. These prescribed fires will help to restore the native prairie and open woodlands, as well as reduce hazardous fuels that could burn in a wildfire.
702-acre prescribed burn happening in Perry County
WDAM
PERRY COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - The U.S. Forest Service will be conducting a prescribed burn throughout the day Wednesday in Perry County. Crews started the burn around 10:30 a.m.
Entergy’s Grand Gulf Nuclear Station planning for scheduled shut down
Vicksburg Post
Entergy Mississippi’s Grand Gulf nuclear plant will be shutting down sometime this year to refuel its reactor, according to information from Entergy.
RECYCLE LEFTOVER CHRISTMAS WASTE
Bolivar Commercial
With Christmas done, there’s always the question of how to deal with the amounts of paper and packaging left behind, not to mention the fate of the Christmas tree.
Cleveland Public Works offers a recycling option.
Violence brews at Parchman: Lack of funding, not enough guards and decrepit conditions
Clarion Ledger
One prisoner strangled another to death while other inmates cheered the killing. Two convicts escaped a dilapidated building by walking out an open door. Maximum-security detainees freely roamed hallways, beating and threatening others.
Regional
Alabamians want crackdown on sewer sludge dumping
Al.com
Several dozen concerned citizens, environmental advocates and farmers packed the main hearing room at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management on Tuesday for a public hearing on the way substances called biosolids are being used as fertilizer throughout Alabama.
TDEC extends precautionary fish consumption advisory to Cherokee Reservoir
WCYB
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) announced the extension of the existing precautionary fish consumption advisory on the Holston River due to mercury to also include Cherokee Reservoir on Wednesday.
Frankendeer? Monstrous growths on white-tailed deer are turning stomachs in Alabama
Sun Herald
Carnival cruise ship dumped 5,900 gallons of gray water into ocean
Miami Herald
MIAMI — Carnival Corporation again has found itself in the spotlight for pollution, this time for discharging untreated gray water into the ocean while at Port Canaveral.
National
Trump to Announce Update to National Environmental Policy Act, Officials Say
WSJ
WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to announce an update to a federal environmental policy act that has come under fire from business groups as needlessly delaying infrastructure projects.
Trump to propose environmental changes to allow more construction projects
USA Today
Top Republican: 'Forever chemical' bill has 'no prospects' in Senate
The Hill
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told Bloomberg News a House bill addressing so-called "forever chemicals" has “no prospects in the Senate.”
Former Wisconsin official to lead EPA's Chicago office
AP
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A former Wisconsin official has been appointed to lead a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional office covering six Midwestern states, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Wednesday.
Opinion
EDITORIAL/Can Espy kill the landfill?
Madison County Journal
The only conceivable upshot of Mike Espy being back as attorney for the Board of Supervisors is that he ought to have enough “green” connections to get this third landfill killed before Tuesday’s MDEQ vote.
Weathersbee: It's time Memphis flushed sewage pact with Mississippi suburbs
Commercial Appeal
This made sense in 1975.
Back then, the Mississippi River was struggling to revive itself from decades of industrial and human waste, and worries abounded that it would continue to be a toilet if wastewater from surrounding cities wound up in it.
Press Releases
Mississippi Lakes to Host Annual Eagle Watches
USACE
VICKSBURG, Miss. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District’s north Mississippi lakes will each hold their midwinter bald eagle survey, Eagle Watch, in January.Mississippi lakes also contribute approximately $82 million into the local economy.
