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Four sites in state have no coal ash spill hazard rating

Wally Northway — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:25:40 +0000

AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Four years after a massive coal ash spill in East Tennessee, environmental conservation groups have launched an interactive website and map that shows the location and hazard risks for coal ash sites at 100 power plants throughout the Southeast. The website, www.southeastcoalash.org, is a project of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, [...]

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River restocking continues following massive fish kill

Associated Press — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:33:23 +0000

PEARL RIVER — After a three-hour journey in a truck-mounted fish tank, thousands of young bluegills were released into the West Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, La., last week. In small batches, state wildlife officials released 200,000 bluegills — raised at a state hatchery in Alexandria, La., — into the river near Interstate 59 [...]

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Scientists, BP say Gulf oil sheen from drilling wreckage

Associated Press — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:48:49 +0000

GULF OF MEXICO — Federal scientists and BP say oil appears to have leaked last month from the drilling wreckage lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out in 2010, causing the nation’s worst offshore spill. A probe started after a sheen was discovered Sept. 16 in [...]

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Leaking Keesler generator spills diesel into bay

MBJ Staff — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:06:13 +0000

BILOXI — Keesler Air Force Base reported it is responding to a diesel fuel spill from the base commissary generator that leaked into a storm drain leading to Biloxi’s Back Bay yesterday. Brig. Gen. Brad Spacy, 81st Training Wing commander, said the base’s fire department, hazardous materials spill team and environmental officials are on scene [...]

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Judge rules TVA liable for massive ash spill

Associated Press — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:08:34 +0000

NORTH MISSISSIPPI — A federal judge has ruled that the Tennessee Valley Authority is liable for a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in 2008 in East Tennessee. The judge ruled in favor of hundreds of plaintiffs who sued after a containment dike at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant burst Dec. 22, 2008. The failure spilled five [...]

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Agencies re-stock river as part of post-spill recovery efforts

MBJ Staff — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:32 +0000

PEARL RIVER COUNTY — Approximately 14,000 pounds of harvestable-sized blue catfish will be released into the Pearl River near Picayune (Walkiah Bluff) as part of a continued recovery effort by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The catfish, donated by a Mississippi catfish producer, [...]

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Judge set to preside over oil spill settlement; Halliburton objects

Associated Press — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:48:21 +0000

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a hearing on a proposed class-action settlement that would resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP PLC and a team of plaintiffs’ attorneys are seeking U.S. District Judge Carl [...]

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Hazmat crew working to cleanup chemical spill on Coast

Associated Press — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:03:41 +0000

GULFPORT — A hazardous-materials crew is working around the clock to clean up a corrosive liquid spill at Channel Chemical Corp. Earl Etheridge of the state Department of Environmental Quality tells The Sun Herald he expects the cleanup will take two or three days. Etheridge said the spill at the Gulfport plant apparently occurred yesterday [...]

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