2026-01-11_Mississippi Environmental News

MDEQ in the News NewsBreak • February 09, 2026 • 10:20 PM State to hold permit hearing for xAI turbines in Southaven, EPA updates rules on temporary generators until the day of the hearing to submit comments to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality through the age n cy's website or in JD Supra • February 09, 2026 • 4:30 PM Solid Waste Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Ridgeland Landfill Enter into Agreed Order were taken to address certain alleged violations which the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality verified. Further, BFI is stated

Mississippi WTOK-TV • February 10, 2026 • 4:32 AM Bills under review for teacher pay raises; educators, leaders weigh in on need for higher salaries 6,000 vacancies in Mississippi among teachers, administrators and school support staff. "Ideally, we need to create an environment where we WJTV-TV • February 10, 2026 • 1:37 AM Endangered sea turtles receive critical imaging at Mississippi State care. Sawyer was found in the spring of 2025, floating in the Mississippi Sound. Rescuers first noticed he had lost most of a front flipper

Regional EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency • February 10, 2026 • 8:28 PM EPA Selects City of Austin for Brownfields Job Training Grant to Boost the Austin Economy and Clean Up Communities DALLAS, TEXAS (February 10, 2026) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the selection of City of Austin's Economic NewsBreak • February 10, 2026 • 7:30 PM 16 Shark Species Still Roaming U.S. Waters allowing them to venture far up rivers—they've been spotted in the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois and in numerous other U.S. Sun Herald • February 10, 2026 • 9:32 AM Poison at play: Unsafe levels of lead found in half of new Orleans playgrounds team covered the entire footprint of each playground with water-pervious plastic fabric and then 6 inches of Mississippi River sediment from WLOX-TV • February 09, 2026 • 4:30 PM Experts warn chemicals found in fertilizer could threaten farmland and waterways always removed during treatment and end up building up in the leftover solid waste called biosolids, which farmers use as fertilizer. "One

National Yahoo! News • February 11, 2026 • 3:54 AM USF researchers harness sunlight in promising breakthrough to fight red tide in 2018 and 2021 left lasting memories across the Bay Area, from fish kills to foul odors and breathing problems. Scientists say finding an Associated Press • February 10, 2026 • 5:16 PM East Bay Municipal Utility District and Kleinschmidt Associates Earn EBJ Award for Innovative Dam Breach Modeling industrial services, water & wastewater equipment, air quality & pollution control equipment, hazardous waste management, resource recovery,