State
UK-owned pellet plant in US fined $2.5m over air quality breaches
BBC
A facility in the US supplying wood pellets to the UK for green electricity has been fined $2.5m for breaching air pollution rules.
MDEQ DIRECTED TO DROP NCL PERMITS; NEXT DAY REQUEST CHANGED
Northside Sun
NCL Waste, LLC has sent conflicting letters to Mississippi Department of Environmental Equality (MDEQ) regarding their position in developing a third landfill in Madison County.
WASTE MANAGEMENT RESUMES NORMAL COLLECTION SCHEDULE IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
Northside Sun
All Waste Management collection services, including residential, commercial, and roll-off, will resume regularly scheduled service to our valued customers beginning Monday, February 22, safety and road conditions permitting.
Residents volunteer time to clean up Moss Point
WLOX
MOSS POINT, Miss. (WLOX) - Moss Point community leaders spent their Saturday morning picking up trash. Organizers with the 200 Man Stand held a community clean up event in the neighborhood around Kreole Elementary.
Jackson Public Works Director gives update on efforts to restore water pressure
WJTV
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The City of Jackson announced more progress was being made to restore water to the city.
'Don't want these deer shot': Deer being collared in Mississippi. Here's where and why.
Clarion Ledger
Mississippi State University and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks are at it again. They're collaring deer in Mississippi.
A new effort to create a Conservation Trust in Mississippi could become reality
Y’all Politics
A group of Mississippi and national conservation groups including Wildlife Mississippi, Ducks Unlimited, the Nature Conservancy, Delta Council / Delta Wildlife, Coastal Conservation Association and the Foundation for MDWFP are banding together to promote a program to create a conservation trust using a sales tax diversion from the existing sales of sporting goods.
USM selects new head for Coastal Operations
WDAM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The University of Southern Mississippi announced their choice to lead their coastal teaching and research sites In Long Beach, Gulport, Ocean Springs and at the Stennis Space Center, as Dr. Shannon Campbell has been named Senior Associate Vice President for Coastal Operations.
Goodyear buying Cooper Tire in deal worth nearly $3 billion
WTVA
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) — Goodyear announced Monday it is buying Cooper Tire in a deal valued at $2.8 million, meaning that one of the area's largest employers will soon change hands.
Regional
Groups seek to have Biden EPA declare gypsum, acid water in big St. James waste pile as hazardous
NOLA.com
Federal regulators are being asked to end a nearly 30-year-old determination that exempts the white, radioactive waste material and related acidic water in a St. James Parish gypsum pile from being considered hazardous waste.
National
U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement
WSJ
WASHINGTON—The U.S. officially rejoined the Paris climate change agreement on Friday as President Biden puts environmental policy at the center of his agenda and prepares to work with world leaders to cut global greenhouse gas emissions.
Opinion
No third landfill in Madison County: Support bill that gives people a voice
Robert Watson
Guest columnist
Clarion Ledger
Madison County is a great place to grow up, raise a family, work and retire. We are blessed with good schools, loving churches, career opportunities and wonderful people.
OPINION: LANDOWNERS YET TO REAP BENEFIT OF HIGHER PRICES
Northside Sun
At 1.13 billion, timber is the third biggest agricultural crop in Mississippi, behind poultry/eggs at $2.16 billion and soybeans at $1.21 billion.There are 125,000 timber landowners with 19.7 million acres. That's two-thirds of the total acres in the state.
