State
Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Day set for next week
Picayune Item
Pearl River County residents will be able to safely dispose of household hazardous waste such as all purpose cleaners, pesticides and cellphone batteries during the Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Day set for Oct. 10.
Curbside recycling services resume in Jackson County
WLOX
Residents in the unincorporated areas of Jackson County can put their recycling carts along with garbage carts curbside to be serviced, beginning, Thursday, October 1, 2020.
Reef extension at Deer Island thanks in part to Biloxi infrastructure project
WLOX
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s taken about three years to collect the concrete culverts - and about as much time to get permission to dump them into the Mississippi Sound.
LAKE CHECK MOVES INTO SECOND STEP OF INSPECTION
Grenada Star
Work has started at Grenada Lake, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will spend the next few weeks inspecting structures.
Changes to WMA waterfowl draw hunts for 2020-21 Season
WJTV
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) has made procedural changes to waterfowl draw hunts on Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) for the 2020-21 hunting season.
State Government
Gov. Reeves lets statewide mask mandate expire
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves is allowing the statewide mask mandate to expire.
Mississippi lawmakers plan another return to Capitol for federal COVID-19 pandemic funding
Clarion Ledger
Mississippi lawmakers are scheduled to return to Jackson once again Thursday in order to reallocate tens of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
National
Chemical company to pay $11 million for cleanup of toxic South Jersey site
Philadelphia Inquirer
Chemical maker Hercules will pay $11.3 million toward cleanup of a Superfund site in Gloucester County under a consent decree reached in federal court with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of New Jersey that would require tons of toxic soil to be dug up and removed.
Opinion
EDITORIAL/Big Garbage suing taxpayers
Madison County Journal
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
A multi-million dollar garbage company seeking to locate in west Ridgeland what would become Madison County’s third landfill is — wait for it — suing Madison County for $60 million.
Press Releases
Governor Reeves Issues New Comprehensive Safe Recovery Order in Ongoing Effort to Flatten the Curve
JACKSON — Today, Governor Tate Reeves announced his new comprehensive Safe Recovery order as a one-stop resource for Mississippians as we continue to flatten the curve on new COVID-19 cases.
