Mississippi News

FROM THE CLARION LEDGER
BY ANNA WOLFE
(File Photo/The Clarion-Ledger)
CDT August 20, 2016
A former official responsible for protecting Mississippi's environment is representing two companies accused of contaminating a Grenada community’s groundwater. A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officer is representing the company that serves as the face of the contaminated site, which the EPA has overseen for years.

Now, the community is expressing skepticism about the players, including those at the state and federal regulatory agencies, who are tasked with keeping them safe and healthy. "They’re like hand in glove with the polluters," said Ted Lyon, the residents' attorney. "There’s a lot of you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back."
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July 29, 2016
By Sierra Club Media Team
On July 27, nearly a decade after Sierra Club volunteers used testing to show high formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers supplied to Gulf Coast residents after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule to protect people from formaldehyde in wood products.

The Kemper story broke big in the New York Times yesterday morning. Here is the story and other info, with links to all of the sources.

WASHINGTON
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press
If there's a War on Coal, it's increasingly clear which side is winning. Wind turbines and solar panels accounted for more than two-thirds of all new electric generation capacity added to the nation's grid in 2015, according to a recent analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy. The remaining third was largely new power plants fueled by natural gas, which has become cheap and plentiful as a result of hydraulic fracturing.
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