Mississippi Business Journal » Environmental Protection Agency http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Study: Fracking doesn’t pose groundwater risks http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/study-fracking-doesn%e2%80%99t-pose-groundwater-risks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=study-fracking-doesn%25e2%2580%2599t-pose-groundwater-risks http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/study-fracking-doesn%e2%80%99t-pose-groundwater-risks/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:42:49 +0000 john.stodder http://msbusiness.com/?p=55452 In a possible foreshadowing of long-awaited findings by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin has found “no direct link to reports of groundwater contamination” from the controversial natural gas extraction method known as fracking. According to project leader Charles Groat, “From what we’ve seen so far, many [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/04/08/study-fracking-doesn%e2%80%99t-pose-groundwater-risks/feed/ 1 Panel sides with EPA over Yazoo Pump; board mulls another appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:18:00 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=53561 NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control project near the Yazoo River in the south Mississippi Delta. >> RELATED: EPA admits it has no experts on Yazoo Pump Project. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/feed/ 1 Chambers named to EPA board http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/11/16/chambers-named-to-epa-board/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chambers-named-to-epa-board http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/11/16/chambers-named-to-epa-board/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:03 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=15218 Janice E. “Jan” Chambers, a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and director of Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) Center for Environmental Health Sciences, is the new vice chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Human Studies Review Board, a congressionally mandated committee reviewing scientific and ethical research of human subjects. In addition to authoring more than [...]

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