State
enHance: Assessing and Reducing Workplace Risk
MDEQ and MMA invites you to join an enHance webinar on October 7 to discuss assessing and reducing workplace risks. Register here: https://bit.ly/3kIpQ9G
Detention ponds coming to the City of Pearl to help reduce flash flooding problems
WLBT
PEARL, Miss. (WLBT) - Some of the worst flooding events in the City of Pearl have caused major destruction in the past.
Aberdeen city officials discuss business initiative campaign
Monroe Journal
…Also during citizen’s input, Herb Hatfield shared concerns he and his neighbors have about a three-and-a-half-acre patch of trees recently cut down alongside Meadowlane Drive. He said since being cut, it has been an eyesore, caused standing water to attract mosquitoes. He added a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality study found the presence of E. coli in a stream in the area.
Deer season 2020 in Mississippi: What you need to know before you go hunting
Clarion Ledger
Deer season is just around the corner with archery season opening Thursday, but due to hunter concerns over the herd population and management of chronic wasting disease, regulations have been evolving more often in recent years.
City of Oxford, Army Corps of Engineers sign Project Partnership Agreement
Oxford Eagle
The City of Oxford’s Regional Water Supply and Treatment Project received a boost last week.
State Government
Adranos locating rocket motor research & development in Stone, creating 20 jobs
NewsMS
Adranos Incorporated has become the latest company in Mississippi to announce an expansion.
Sun-n-Sand named one of most endangered historic places in America
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel is one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2020, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Oil Spill
Senators look forward to more communication for future GCRF grant projects
WLOX
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Gulf Coast businesses and organizations are getting a little more guidance for submitting projects for potential funding from the BP oil spill settlement.
Regional
Alabama beaches remain closed
WTOK
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WTOK) - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has agreed to keep Baldwin County’s beaches closed until Friday, Oct. 2.
National
State regulators issue new restrictions on ‘forever chemicals’
Boston Globe
After years of research showing the dangers of so-called forever chemicals, state regulators Thursday joined a growing number of their counterparts in other states in issuing significant new limits on the human-made compounds in drinking water, a move hailed by environmental advocates.
Get outdoors: You can visit a national park for free this weekend. Here’s what to know
Sun Herald
Piping plover recovery program survives COVID-19
Record-Eagle
HONOR — The cheery and charming Great Lakes piping plovers seen flitting along the shores of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore were at the brink of extinction before one of the most intense conservation programs in the nation buoyed its population.
Press Releases
EPA Celebrates 25 Years of Success with the National Environmental Performance Partnership System
09/24/2020
EPA Hosts Small Business Week 2020
09/24/2020
EPA Settles with Starbucks Corporation for local Chemical Emergency Planning Violations
09/24/2020
SEATTLE - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled alleged civil chemical accident prevention and preparedness violations with Starbucks Corporation of Kent, Washington.
