Posts Tagged ‘pollution control’

Department of Environmental Quality developing water sources plan

by Ted Carter Published: May 24,2013

Tags: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, oil & gas, pollution control, Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, water sources

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is preparing regulations that will govern how oil and gas companies use both surface and below-ground water sources in their water-intensive hydraulic fracturing operations in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale development. What the agency comes up with could determine whether Mississippi ever sees the billions of dollars in economic impact [...] [...]

MDEQ fines DuPont for broken pollution-control equipment

by Associated Press Published: September 27,2012

Tags: air quality, emmissions, environment, fabricate, fabricator, fine, goods, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, paint, penalty, pollution, pollution control, products, state agency, wildlife

DELISLE — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has fined DuPont Co.’s DeLisle plant $117,000 after pollution control equipment broke down, allowing a smokestack to emit too much during a March 2011 test. DuPont Co., based in Wilmington, Del., makes titanium dioxide, a whitening agent used in paint, paper and plastics, at the Harrison County [...] [...]

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