MDEQ lifts six Coast beach advisories
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted six water contact advisories for Coast beaches. The advisories have...
View ArticleFoodservice company draws MDEQ fine for wastewater
PEARL — A foodservice company is paying an $18,000 civil fine for dumping wastewater into Jackson’s sewer system for 11 years without a permit. Valley Services agreed in March to pay the fine to the...
View ArticleBill exempting small farms from fuel storage regs passes Senate
WASHINGTON — Legislation to exempt small farms from Environmental Protection Agency fuel storage requirements has been incorporated into the Senate-passed Water Resources Development Act of 2013...
View ArticleEPA looking to minimize chemical releases during hurricanes
GULF OF MEXICO — As hurricane season approaches, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a Hazardous Weather Release Prevention and Reporting alert to remind facility operators of...
View ArticleNew post-oil spill restoration plan lacks requirements
GULF OF MEXICO — There’s now a draft plan for using fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to restore the Gulf Coast’s natural resources and economy. But the document doesn’t include two items...
View ArticleSewer spill prompts MDEQ advisory for Coast bayou
BAY ST. LOUIS — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has issued a temporary water contact advisory for Joe’s Bayou near Felicity Street in Bay St. Louis. The advisory is issued...
View ArticleMDEQ lifts advisories on three stretches of beach
GULFPORT — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted three water contact advisories issued May 31. The cleared stations are: • Station...
View ArticleWith lifting of advisories, all Coast beaches open
HARRISON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted two water contact advisories issued June 1 for stretches of Harrison...
View ArticleSenators back bill aimed at EPA’s guidance policy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) have renewed their fight to halt the Environmental Protection Agency from using regulatory guidance to expand the scope of the...
View ArticleWith tar balls still common, some question end of oil spill cleanup
GULF OF MEXICO — Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn’t difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn’t common enough to keep sending out the crews...
View ArticleCoast’s air quality passes test, meets standards
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Mississippi’s three Coast counties meet all the air-quality requirements outlined by federal law. That’s according to a report from the state Department of Environmental...
View ArticleWell spill puts hundreds of gallons of oil in river
WAYNESBORO — Authorities are cleaning up hundreds of gallons of oil that spilled from a well in Wayne County and leaked into the Chickasawhay River. The Clarion-Ledger reports that 945 to 2,362 gallons...
View ArticleCreosote contamination almost contained at former plant site
PICAYUNE — Soil on the property, contaminated by creosote where wood was treated at the old Picayune Wood Treating plant from the 1940s to the late 1990s, is in the final states of being completely...
View ArticleCourt upholds five-year-old air pollution standard
WASHINGTON — A federal court today upheld a 2008 air pollution standard the Obama administration vowed to strengthen, but later reversed itself and kept in place. The U.S. Court of Appeals in...
View ArticleBlown out Gulf well continues to burn off La. coast
GULF OF MEXICO — An out-of-control natural gas well off the Louisiana coast continued to burn today after it caught fire following a blowout that prompted the evacuation of 44 workers, authorities...
View ArticleOwner of burning Gulf gas well still looking for way to stop leak
GULF OF MEXICO — The owner of a natural gas drilling rig aflame off of Louisiana’s coast said preparations were underway for the possible drilling of a relief well to divert gas from the site and bring...
View ArticleFire at leaking Gulf gas well extinguished; officials mulling next steps
GULF OF MEXICO — Officials say the fire is out at a natural gas well in the Gulf of Mexico that blew wild earlier in the week. Natural gas stopped flowing from the well earlier today, and the remaining...
View ArticleHalliburton to plead guilty to obstruction in oil spill investigation
NEW ORLEANS — Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the 2010 Gulf oil spill, the Department of Justice said yesterday. Federal officials said...
View ArticleResearchers sampling water around blown out Gulf gas well
GULF OF MEXICO — Scientists from several universities are working to learn whether a gas well that blew wild last week off the Louisiana coast is polluting the Gulf of Mexico. Joseph Montoya, a biology...
View ArticleWorkers complete debris removal from blown out Gulf gas well
GULF OF MEXICO — Federal regulators say workers have finished removing debris from the wellhead of a gas well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico last month off the coast of Louisiana. The Bureau of...
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