State
Engineers squabble over whether to rebuild Oktibbeha Lake dam
Commercial Dispatch
Oktibbeha supervisors voted 3-2 on Monday to use county operating funds for County Engineer Clyde Pritchard's to develop blueprints to replace the Oktibbeha County Lake dam.
Pritchard, Sills disagree over Oktibbeha dam plans
Starkville Daily News
As the Oktibbeha County Lake dam situation continues, County Engineer Clyde Pritchard gave an update on the dam’s status at the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors meeting Monday night.
State Government
LEGISLATORS SUSPEND SESSION DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
MPB
Mississippi lawmakers are heading home after suspending the legislative session due to the Coronavirus.
PSC approves Miss. Power rate decrease
WTOK
JACKSON, Miss. (WTOK) - The Mississippi Public Service Commission Tuesday approved a rate decrease for residential customers of Mississippi Power. The savings will be about $2.48 a month, starting in April, for customers using 1,000 kWh of energy a month.
Regional
Amid coronavirus concerns, Alabama leaves public beaches open for now
Al.com
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday left open all public access beaches in Orange Beach as hundreds continued to congregate despite the threat from the highly transmissible COVID-19.
National
Dog poop poses pollution perils
Sentinel – Standard
Your pooch’s poop is more than a smelly inconvenience at the bottom of your shoes.
When pet waste is left on trails, in the woods or on the streets, it washes into rivers and lakes that supply drinking water.
Press Releases
EPA Continues to Deliver on Commitments under Amended TSCA
Recent accomplishments include final rule to modernize TSCA reporting and align with amended TSCA
03/17/2020
WASHINGTON (March 17, 2020) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing amendments to the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule that reduce the burden for certain CDR reporters, improve the quality of CDR data collected and align reporting requirements with the Lautenberg Act amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
More than $43 million in coastal resilience grants announced
NOAA
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management today announced more than $43 million in grants to improve the resilience of local communities and wildlife habitat in the face of increasingly severe and frequent natural disasters.
