State
Greenwood Wastewater Pipe Collapse
DeltaNewsTV
Greenwood still working on repairs to a wastewater pipeline that caved last week.
Wastewater line collapses
Greenwood Commonwealth
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality issued a notice Friday to avoid portions of theTallahatchie and Yazoo rivers following the collapse of a Greenwood wastewater line.
Residents near the Oktibbeha county lake dam voice concerns over the dam's safety
WTVA
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss (WTVA) - People living near the Oktibbeha County Lake dam voiced their concerns about the dam's safety during a meeting on Monday night.
County supervisor Marvell Howard told everyone at the meeting tonight that the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality deemed the dam unsafe for the last four years.
ONE LAKE PROJECT GETS ATTENTION AFTER MAJOR FLOODING
MPB
The latest iteration of a plan to widen the Pearl River and provide flood control for areas in and around the capital city is getting more attention after the recent record flooding.
REPORTED OIL SPILL SLOWS TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAY 82
WCBI
LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A reported oil spill slowed traffic on Highway 82 in Lowndes County Monday morning.
Following Yazoo County gas leak, all is back to normal
WJTV
YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Nearly 48 hours after a CO2 gas line burst in Yazoo County, things are safe and back to normal.
“Denbury, the company that operates the thing, has paid a crew of environmental specialists that’s come in and the Department of Environmental Quality for the state has come in.
Friends of Boley gearing back up
Picayune Item
Friends of Boley, a group that formed about 10 years ago with the goal of cleaning the Hobolochitto Creek, has been on a hiatus as of late, but its members are gearing up to conduct more projects.
Playground mural promotes recycling
DeSoto Times-Tribune
A new recycling mural has been erected at Hernando’s Conger Park Playground.
State Government
MDOT worker helps deliver baby off interstate
WAPT
BRANDON, Miss. — A Mississippi Department of Transportation employee had an eventful morning Monday. He delivered a baby along on the interstate.
Regional
Water quality rules for Arkansas advance
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality has recommended to Gov. Asa Hutchinson changes to its water quality regulation, but the changes won’t include several major items that continue to be deliberated.
National
Justices grapple with $8 billion pipeline that would cross Appalachian Trail
The Hill
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a high-profile case that could block construction of an $8 billion gas pipeline seeking to cross the Appalachian Trail.
15-foot shark tagged off Canada shows up near Mississippi River 103 days later
Sun Herald
A huge great white shark fitted last summer with a satellite tag off Nova Scotia has mesmerized researchers by showing up five months later near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
U.S. EPA exploring incentives for improving Great Lakes water quality
Toledo Blade
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to see if market-based approaches — such as the sale of water-quality credits between utilities and farmers to encourage more investment — might prove to be a cost-effective way of combating chronic algae problems in western Lake Erie and other parts of the Great Lakes region.
Where’s My Cup? Offices Find It’s Not Easy Going Green
WSJ
It wasn’t a dignified move, but Philippa Dunjay felt she had no choice.
A strategist at an ad agency owned by Deloitte, Ms. Dunjay, 31, had just sat through a nearly two-hour meeting while visiting the firm’s London headquarters. Another one was beginning shortly, and she was feeling parched.
Opinion
OUR VIEW: Keep public notices in community newspapers
Meridian Star
Bills have been submitted to the Mississippi Senate and House of Representatives that would give local government bodies the option to publish their public notices – legal advertisements – on government-operated websites rather than in local newspapers.
Press Releases
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes Critical Habitat for threatened black pinesnake
Over 324,000 acres in Mississippi and Alabama designated to help in species’ conservation
February 25, 2020
Daphne, Alabama — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the black pinesnake, a non-venomous constrictor found only in Mississippi and Alabama. This native reptile was listed as threatened under the ESA in 2015 following population declines due to habitat loss and degradation.
Graduate Students Find Impacts of Freshwater in Mississippi’s Oysters
UM
OXFORD, Miss. – As Ann Fairly Barnett pulled an oyster dredge up through the shoreline waters of the Mississippi Sound, she was dreading what she was about to find.
