State
Water level at Oktibbeha Lake rises overnight
WTVA
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) - Heavy rains pushed the water level back up in the Oktibbeha County lake overnight.
SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RECYCLING RATES IN HARRISON COUNTY
WXXV
Recycling in Harrison County has seen a steady amount of growth over the past few years.
MDEQ ISSUES NEW WATER CONTACT ADVISORIES
WXXV
The Department of Environmental Quality is issuing new water contact advisories along the Coast.
Mississippi Legislature: Harvest reporting, CWD on radar of new wildlife chairmen
Clarion Ledger
Coming out of an election year, the Mississippi Legislature is in session and key appointments affecting conservation in the state have been made in both the House of Representatives and Senate. In the House, Rep. Bill Kinkade has been appointed chairman of the Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks committee and Sen. Neil Whaley has been appointed to the Senate's Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks committee.
Oil Spill
Mobile Bay National Estuary Program hosts public forum on watershed management plan
Fox 10
For those of you who live, work, or play in Little Lagoon or Perdido Pass, your help is needed Thursday night as the cities of Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, and the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program team up to protect our coastlines.
Regional
Toxic troubles plague Shaw Air Force Base. Water polluted at second trailer park
The State
A second mobile home park near Shaw Air Force base is registering elevated levels of toxic chemicals, prompting questions about the possible spread of pollution from the military base across a wider area of Sumter County.
Mee invasive Asian Carp, the feral hog of Alabama waterways
Al.com
According to ADCNR, Asian carp have long been a problem in other parts of the country, but these fish are now working their way into Alabama.
National
Trump backs off support for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
The Hill
The White House said Thursday that President Trump's budget request for 2021 will not include funding for a controversial nuclear waste repository in Nevada, marking a reversal of the administration's stance from the previous three years.
Man gets 30 days in prison for storing hazardous waste in Gloucester County
Philadelphia Inquirer
The former owner of a Gloucester County industrial business was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Camden to 30 days in prison for illegally storing hazardous waste that required a $4.2 million clean-up by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
Denver site of one of two hearings on NEPA changes
Daily Sentinel
Denver next week will be the site of one of two public hearings scheduled nationally on controversial proposed changes by the Trump administration regarding how a 50-year-old environmental law is carried out.
These Pennsylvania farmers say they do try to stem Chesapeake Bay pollution — and that it’s expensive
Baltimore Sun
On farmland his family has worked since the 1720s, Chris Landis remembers his grandfather dumping mounds of cow manure wherever he pleased. The man died at 92 without ever laying eyes on the estuary into which that waste eventually flowed: the Chesapeake Bay.
So Landis can understand why, today, Pennsylvania farmers are so often cast as the villains in the decades-long effort to clean up the bay. He hopes that will change.
Opinion
County should learn from Robins Lake dam
Editorial – Natchez Democrat
Local officials may wish they had a time machine to return to the day when the county decided to adopt the road on Robins Lake dam.
Press Releases
Interior Announces More Than $170 Million in Conservation Funding for States and Tribes to Reclaim and Repurpose Abandoned Coal Mines
The FY 2020 AML Reclamation funding available to states and tribes is as follows:
Mississippi
$113,406
