Posted: Aug 04, 2014 8:18 PM CDT Updated: Aug 05, 2014 9:28 AM CDT By Caray Grace WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - You could say, Mississippi Power and the Sierra Club have called a truce. The power company and the environmental group announced a settlement Monday, in their six year battle over the [...]
Tens of thousands of chemicals have not been reviewed by the EPA, and people are starting to ask questions June 27, 2014 6:36PM ET by Peter Moskowitz @ptrmsk This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hit a major milestone that some people, including leaders at the agency itself, think shouldn’t be celebrated. On Wednesday, the agency released a final [...]
June 26, 2014 12:30PM ET by Benjamin Shingler @benshingler Canada's top court has sided with a British Columbia indigenous tribe in a case that could have wide-reaching implications for land disputes over traditional aboriginal territories. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday in favor of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, a tribe of 3,000 in the remote interior of the Canadian province, [...]
by Brett Shipp / WFAA.com Posted on June 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM Updated Friday, Jun 6 at 9:01 AM For the past two years, News 8 has aired a series of stories of flames shooting from water wells in Parker County. Dangerous levels of methane gas somehow found its way into the water supply. While Barnett Shale gas producers [...]
By: Jaon Bacon; USA TODAY 8:32 a.m. EDT March 24, 2014 Three cruise ships were among scores of boats trapped by an "extremely serious" oil spill that closed the shipping channel connecting Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico for a second day Sunday, the Coast Guard said. On Saturday, a barge carrying almost 1 million gallons of heavy oil [...]
By The Associated Press on January 06, 2014 at 6:52 PM, updated January 06, 2014 at 6:59 PM JACKSON, Mississippi -- Environmental groups want a judge to stop rules setting a framework for offshore gas and oil exploration in parts of the Mississippi Sound. At a hearing Monday, the Sierra Club and the Gulf Restoration Network asked Hinds County Chancery [...]
