State
150 gallons of fuel spill after 18 wheeler crash on I-10 in Harrison County
Sun Herald
An accident on Interstate 10 early Friday morning caused 150 gallons of fuel to spill from an 18-wheeler onto the soil next to the interstate.
Log Truck Overturns
Greenwood Commonwealth
A 9400 International log truck was coming off Mississippi 17 South onto U.S. 82 headed east at the Carrollton intersection around noon Friday when it overturned, spilling logs onto the road.
Mississippi Coastal Cleanup, volunteers tackle beach cleanup despite heavy rain
WLOX
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Heavy rain was a common sight Saturday, and when it rains more and more trash is blown into our beach waters.
MDMR lists red snapper season dates
WLOX
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - If you love red snapper, you’re in luck.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION NEARING APPROVAL FOR COOPERATIVE ENERGY'S PLANNED DISTRIBUTION GRID UPGRADE
Northside Sun
The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted at its Thursday meeting to refer a planned improvement to Cooperative Energy’s distribution grid to Chairman Dane Maxwell, who represents the Southern District.
Regional
Can inhaling algae toxins make us sick? The CDC needs volunteers to find out
TC Palm
Federal researchers are trying to determine the health effects of breathing toxins from blue-green algae. Now you can possibly play a role in helping them answer that question — and get compensated for your time.
Massive Georgia plant to turn plastic into fuels, chemicals
AJC
A San Francisco company says it will build the nation’s largest plastic waste processing plant outside of Macon, a facility that eventually could offer a solution to one of the country’s most visible and pressing environmental problems — plastic pollution.
Colonial Pipeline could face fine after leak in N Carolina
AP
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Colonial Pipeline faces a fine of $200,000 a day if it fails to improve the way it detects leaks in its U.S. pipeline system following a massive gasoline leak in North Carolina, according to an agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe is losing homes to erosion on the Gulf Coast
Sun Herald
Chris Brunet points to the stumps of dead trees throughout his yard.
Florida Breaks Annual Manatee Death Record In First 6 Months Of 2021
AP
STUART, Fla. — More manatees have died already this year than in any other year in Florida's recorded history, primarily from starvation due to the loss of seagrass beds, state officials said.
National
Pandemic garbage boom ignites debate over waste as energy
AP
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline — and that has reignited a debate about the sustainability of burning more trash to create energy.
E.P.A. Approved Toxic Chemicals for Fracking a Decade Ago, New Files Show
NY Times
For much of the past decade, oil companies engaged in drilling and fracking have been allowed to pump into the ground chemicals that, over time, can break down into toxic substances known as PFAS — a class of long-lasting compounds known to pose a threat to people and wildlife — according to internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Can quantum tech boost fiber-optic oil, gas leak sensors?
AP
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Researchers in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee are working to see whether quantum-enhanced fiber sensing could detect offshore oil and gas leaks before they’re big enough to damage the environment.
‘Catastrophe.’ Extreme heat cooks more than a billion shellfish alive on beaches
Sun Herald
A deadly heat wave engulfing the Pacific Northwest and Canada has killed hundreds of people — and more than a billion shellfish cooked alive on scorching beaches, experts say.
Agency: Endangered salmon can co-exist with dams on Kennebec
AP
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Endangered Atlantic Salmon in the Kennebec River can be protected without removing four hydroelectric dams, federal energy regulators say, leaving conservation groups stunned.
Large goldfish caught in the wild across multiple states spark warnings from local officials
Fox News
Aquarium fish don’t belong in lakes and rivers. Two anglers in different states recently made headlines for catching large goldfish in the wild.
Opinion
Check water quality before going to the beach
Picayune Item
By Skip Rigney
My grandchildren live hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. So when they visit us during the summer, we usually make an outing to the nearby white, sandy beaches.
Press Releases
Service Proposes Critical Habitat for Threatened Pearl Darter in Mississippi
USFWS
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate critical habitat for the pearl darter, a small fish native to the Pascagoula River system of Mississippi and the Pearl River system of Mississippi and Louisiana.
