State
Small earthquake reported near Hamilton
Monroe Journal
HAMILTON – According to a report from the United States Geological Survey, a small earthquake was reported Dec. 3 near Hamilton.
State Government
Mississippi may have 25K doses of COVID-19 vaccine by next week
NewsMS
It appears that Mississippi is just days away from receiving its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Mississippi budget proposal includes some spending cuts
AP
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Top Mississippi legislators on Monday released their first budget recommendations for the year that begins July 1.
PRESLEY: MISSISSIPPI TO RECEIVE MORE THAN $495 MILLION FROM FIRST ROUND OF RURAL DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND
Northside Sun
Today, Commissioner Brandon Presley announced that Mississippi has been awarded more than $495 million in the first round of the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).
Regional
Invasive lizards are threatening wildlife in Georgia, officials say
Fox News
Georgia wildlife officials are trying to eradicate an invasive lizard that consumes the unhatched eggs of a number of local animals.
COVID-19 cases causing delays in recycling, trash pick up in Memphis
WMC
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - COVID-19 is causing problems with trash and recycling pickup across the City of Memphis.
National
EPA to Retain Existing Soot Standards After Review
WSJ
WASHINGTON—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler has decided to retain current standards for soot pollution, keeping fine-particle pollution limits adopted in 2012 that set the bar at 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air.
GAO finds lack of funding, aging equipment plague national air pollution monitoring system
The Hill
Years of budget cuts have left the U.S. air pollution monitoring system in a state of disrepair, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Press Releases
EPA Finalizes NAAQS for Particulate Matter
12/07/2020
WASHINGTON (December 7, 2020) — Today, at a virtual press conference with Governor Jim Justice, U.S. Congressman Alex Mooney (WV-02), West Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Austin Caperton, and Senior Deputy Attorney General Douglas Buffington, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the agency’s final decision to retain the existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM) set by the Obama-Biden Administration without changes.
