Mississippi News

FROM THE NORTHSIDE SUN
WYATT EMMERICH, PUBLISHER

RURAL COOPERATIVES FIGHT SOLAR POWER TOOTH AND NAIL
Mississippi has some of the worst laws in the nation on solar energy. That's too bad because solar is becoming competitive and Mississippi has lots of sunshine. Last year, the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) stipulated new net metering rules for Entergy and Mississippi Power Company to promote solar power. In response, Mississippi's nonprofit rural co-ops, which supply electricity to 60 percent of Mississippi homes, are seeking legislative exclusion from the new pro-solar rules.

(From a MDEQ press release jointly released by Governor Bryant and Attorney General Hood)
Mississippi Reaches Landmark Agreement in BP Oil Spill Disaster Case
(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Gov. Phil Bryant and Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that the federal court in New Orleans approved a settlement among the Gulf States, United States, and BP totaling approximately $18.7 billion related to claims arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As a result of the settlement, an additional $1.5 billion will come to Mississippi for natural resource damages and civil penalties under the Clean Water Act. These funds will be distributed to the state over the next 17 years and are in addition to $659 million of early funding already received. In all, Mississippi is receiving a total of nearly $2.174 billion in compensation.

JACKSON, MS-- As part of the year-long celebration of the National Park Service Centennial, the Sierra Club Foundation has funded the Mississippi Sierra Club Central Group's Museum to Market Trail Outdoor Adventures program. Watch this space for more announcements.

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