State
Hurricanes pose growing risk to Coast industrial sites with toxic chemicals
Sun Herald
When Hurricane Sally seemed poised to make landfall in western Jackson County, Walter Abram was nervous. He works at the Mississippi Phosphates Corporation superfund site, where the accumulated byproducts of decades of fertilizer production cover about 300 acres, spread over two piles called stacks. When a single inch of rainfall hits the area, it can generate up to nine million gallons of contaminated water.
MDEQ Issues Beach Water Contact Advisory in Waveland
WXXV
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued a water contact advisory Friday for Station 3 (Waveland Beach).
USM Gulf Park campus expanding focus on coastal areas of study
WLOX
LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) - The University of Southern Mississippi Coastal Operations will expand to focusing on uniquely coastal areas of study on the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach.
CWD could devastate deer populations
Commercial Dispatch
Mississippi wildlife officials are on high alert. With deer season inching closer and hunters prepared to head into the woods, representatives from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and those keenly involved in the hunting business are warning participants to take heed of cases of chronic wasting disease among deer in the state.
MEMA: Several homes damaged, two injured due to Hurricane Delta
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has issued their preliminary damage report after Hurricane Delta passed through the state.
State Government
Legislature reappropriates more than $60M in coronavirus relief funds
NewsMS
The Mississippi Legislature concluded its 2020 business by reappropriating more than $60 million from the Coronavirus Relief Funds allocated to the State from the federal government.
September revenue report $67.3 million over estimate
Y’all Politics
Total revenue collections for the month of September FY 2021 are $67,309,401 or 14.60% above the sine die revenue estimate.
Oil Spill
Extension Connection: New artificial reefs coming to local waters
News Herald
Beginning later this month, new artificial reefs will be deployed in waters off Bay County, with more scheduled through the end of 2020. Reefs will be deployed in eight new permitted sites located 11-15 nautical miles (nm) southwest of the St. Andrew Bay Pass in state waters.
Regional
Florida agency seeks control of federal wetland permits
Naples Daily News
A Florida agency is working to assume control of a federal program meant to protect the state’s wetlands, a move environmental groups say could further imperil dwindling natural ecosystems.
New litter traps keep plastic bags, bottles, diapers out of Birmingham waterways
Al.com
At a massive culvert under 7th Street North in Birmingham, the underground springs flowing beneath the city’s downtown corridor emerge to see the light of day, becoming Valley Creek, a major tributary of the Black Warrior River.
Federal officials continue to raise concerns about proposed mine near Georgia swamp, documents show
The Hill
Federal officials are continuing to express concerns about the potential environmental impacts of a proposed titanium mine near the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia while the company behind it has allegedly pushed back against the idea of a major government assessment of those impacts.
National
Bayer, BASF Fight to Keep Weedkiller on U.S. Farms
WSJ
Chemical makers Bayer AG BAYRY 1.32% and BASF SA are pushing to keep a controversial weedkiller on the market after a federal court in June blocked its use in U.S. soybean and cotton fields.
The Exide battery recycling plant left a big toxic mess. A court could let it walk away
LA Times
For decades, families across a swath of southeast Los Angeles County have lived in an environmental disaster zone, their kids playing in yards polluted with brain-damaging lead while they wait on a state agency to remove contaminated soil from thousands of homes.
