Mississippi Environmental News: 2026-11-09_Mississippi Environmental News

Monday, November 9, 2026

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rural area on the eastern edge of the city. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said its emergency response team and an air

Operations Center also responded to the scene. The Mississippi Department of Environment Quality (MDEQ) dispatched personnel and MDEQ

Agriculture Commission Andy Gipson will chair the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board’s evidentiary hearing

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they go. A Free Creekside Park in Northeast Mississippi Tucked beside Twenty Mile Creek in northeast Mississippi, W.M. Browning Cretaceous

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2012 — an effort to boost tourism after the devastating 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Divers go to the former USS Oriskany artificial

by Davis Pond and once heralded by the state as "the largest and boldest environmental restoration project in U.S. history." Though it broke

But another way of looking at it with a different lens is that it is coastal restoration." The king tide took a bite out of the dunes at

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10 billion cans a year, which is equivalent to 600 per household, but the recycling process used just 5% of the energy needed to create new

as the river was still in recovery from major pollution incidents / fish kills in 2013 and 2015," McKibbin said. Advertisement Advertisement