FLOWOOD — The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting Thursday in Flowood to discuss the initial plans for cleaning up an industrial site. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at Flowood Pavillion. The EPA put the former Sonford Products site in Rankin County on the Superfund list in 2007. The EPA [...] [...]
GULFPORT and CANTON — Two closed manufacturing sites in Mississippi have been added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund list. Chemfax Inc. was a former manufacturer of synthetic resins and waxes in Gulfport. Southeastern Wood Preserving was a former wood treating operation in Canton. They are among four new Superfund sites the EPA announced yesterday. [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 26,2012
Tags: cleanup, disaster, disaster recovery, energy, environment, gas, offshore drilling, Oil, oil rig, oil spill, petroleum, seafood, tourism, tourist, visitors, wildlife
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company, claiming he was fired for airing concerns about the cleanup of Mississippi’s shoreline after the Gulf oil spill. In a federal suit filed last Friday in New Orleans, August Walter claims one of his BP bosses manipulated data on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 26,2012
Tags: bridges, cleanup, courts, debris, disaster, disaster recovery, highways, hurricanes, judge, judicial, judiciary, kickback, law, money laundering, natural disaster, roads, severe weather, streets, transportation, travel, tropical weather, Weather
GULFPORT — The trial of a former county road manager from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and his wife has been rescheduled for May 14 in federal court in Gulfport. Roger Ladner, Hancock County’s former road manager, and his wife, Sharon, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing them of being involved in a kickback [...] [...]
PICKENS — A federal judge has sentenced former Holmes County Supervisor Larry Dennis to 30 months in prison Dennis pleaded guilty in September in a bribery case related to cleanup from the April 2010 tornadoes that swept through Mississippi. The U.S. attorney’s office said that on two occasions in 2010, Dennis, who is 59 and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 3,2012
Tags: cleanup, environment, federal government, foresters, forestry, lumber, manufacturing, timber, trees, wood
LAMAR COUNTY — The Environmental Protection Agency has started the cleanup of the Davis Timber Superfund site in Lamar County and the length of the project and cost could turn out to be less than expected. The Hattiesburg American reports EPA official Scott Martin from Atlanta has told supervisors that a November survey of the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 15,2011
Tags: accident, cleanup, disaster, disaster recovery, environment, explosion, offshore drilling, Oil, oil and gas, oil spill, petroleum
GULF OF MEXICO — BP official say they need about a week of favorable weather to complete the cleanup of Horn Island in the Mississippi Gulf of Mexico. “Our guys in operations feel like that in a good five to seven days we can do that cleanup on the south shore of Horn,” said BP [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2011
Tags: accident, cleanup, disaster, disaster recovery, explosion, offshore drilling, Oil, oil and gas, oil spill, petroleum
GULF OF MEXICO — BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company’s well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, according to a plan approved by the Coast Guard and obtained [...] [...]
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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