Mississippi Business Journal » public meetings http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 EPA to hold meeting on Kerr-McGee site cleanup http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/27/epa-to-hold-meeting-on-kerr-mcgee-site-cleanup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epa-to-hold-meeting-on-kerr-mcgee-site-cleanup http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/27/epa-to-hold-meeting-on-kerr-mcgee-site-cleanup/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:06:03 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=47798 COLUMBUS — The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting today on cleanup of the Kerr-McGee Chemical plant site in Columbus. In September, the EPA announced the Kerr-McGee plant had been added to its Superfund list, a program for cleaning up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. WTVA-TV reports the EPA will present an [...]

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