State
GOLD COAST APPEALS PERMIT BOARD DECISION IN HINDS COUNTY CHANCERY COURT
Northside Sun
Gold Coast Commodities filed an appeal on Friday after the state Permit Board revoked its wastewater permit.
No, there wasn’t a dire dam breach and flash flood in Stone County. What happened?
Sun Herald
The alert from the National Weather Service was urgent enough to merit several words in all-caps, multiple exclamation marks, and three bright yellow exclamation sign emojis.
Moving ahead: Work under way on completing backwater pumps project
Vicksburg Post
Engineering and other activity involving the Yazoo Backwater Pumps Project is getting under way, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District Commander Col. Robert Hilliard said.
Focused on Mississippi: Carved in Stone
WJTV
WARREN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The land in Mississippi has been here a lot longer than people have been. To find the history of it, you have to dig about a hundred feet deeper. A gravel pit in the bluffs along the Warren-Hinds County line shows where the Mississippi River was about 700,000 years ago.
Pine Belt residents dispose of hazardous household waste at “Right Way to Throw Away Day”
WDAM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - South Mississippi residents had a chance Saturday to get rid of old paint, anti-freeze, tires or computers during an event designed to keep products like these from damaging the environment.
Saturday clean-up kicks off week long efforts
DeSoto Times-Tribune
Spring cleanups coming in May
Enterprise-Journal
Pike County supervisors have designated its annual spring clean campaign for May 3-7. County workers will pick up rubbish left by the road in District 1 on Monday, May 3; District 2 on Tuesday, District 3 Wednesday, District 4 Thursday and District 5 Friday.
Volunteers needed: Citywide cleanup scheduled for Earth Day
Vicksburg Post
Vicksburg residents will be taking to the streets April 22 to clean up the city.
Shepard State Park hosts early Earth Day celebration
WLOX
GAUTIER, Miss. (WLOX) - Gautier residents were excited to attend Shepard State Park for Earth Day on Saturday. The park provided educational nature pamphlets, free park admission and goodies for the event.
Section of Yalobusha River clogged with years of debris causing more significant floods in Calhoun County
WCBI
CALHOUN CITY, Miss. (WCBI) – It wasn’t just a tornado that hit Calhoun County on March 31. There was also significant flooding that stranded many residents and left their yards underwater.
'Messed up big time': Will Mississippi Legislature fix new law on deer enclosures, CWD?
Clarion Ledger
A bill recently signed into law regulating management of chronic wasting disease and wildlife enclosures for deer has drawn criticism from conservationists, left wildlife officials and others scratching their heads, and seemingly gives preferred treatment to some landowners.
State Government
DPS Commissioner discusses changes approved during legislative session
WLBT
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - As we look to the upcoming law changes as a result of the latest legislative session, we’re turning our attention to the Department of Public Safety.
Oil Spill
Louisiana’s RESTORE Act Plan Amendment Approved
KLFY
BATON ROUGE, LA – Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) today announced the U.S. Department of Treasury’s acceptance of Louisiana’s Second Amended Direct Component Multiyear Implementation Plan under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act).
Regional
Size of pipeline spill again underestimated in N. Carolina
AP
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An energy company has again underestimated the amount of gasoline that spilled from a crack in a pipeline running through a North Carolina nature preserve.
National
Biden’s climate duo of Kerry and McCarthy puts U.S. back in global warming fight
Reuters
An unlikely duo is steering President Joe Biden’s efforts to restore U.S. credibility on fighting climate change: a patrician former presidential candidate and a plain-speaking, long-time civil servant – both with Boston roots and baseball loyalties.
Shell, Exxon Look to Profit From Capturing Customers’ Carbon Emissions
WSJ
Oil companies have for decades made money by extracting carbon from the ground. Now they are trying to make money putting it back.
Environmentalists cheer new Illinois safeguards on coal ash
AP
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Environmentalists are cheering rules that Illinois regulators have adopted to govern toxic byproducts from burning coal.
DNR issues PFAS fish consumption advisory for Monroe County
AP
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources is urging people to limit consumption of fish from a Monroe County creek due to PFAS contamination.
A new EPA app aims to help track water quality at beaches
MSU
LANSING – A new Environmental Protection Agency mobile app will help communities track water quality at their beaches.
Owner, builder of solar array fined for polluting brook
AP
SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A New Jersey solar energy company and utility Eversource have agreed to pay up to $310,000 in state fines to Massachusetts for allegedly violating state environmental laws that led to pollution of a brook and other protected areas.
Press Releases
USACE Vicksburg District opens gates of Steele Bayou Control Structure
Published April 17, 2021
VICKSBURG, Miss. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District opened the gates of the Steele Bayou Control Structure, located approximately 10 miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 16.
