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Headline	Author	Published	Section
An Embarrassment of Richton Mississippi town not enthusiastic about storing strategic petroleum		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Richton, Miss., is the lucky town picked as the fifth storage site for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. To create space to store strategic petroleum, the Department of Energy will drain 50 million gallons of water a day for five years from the Pascagoula River to dissolve underground salt caverns, pumping the resulting brine through likely-to-leak pipelines over ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Mississippi, news, oil, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Biloxi Clues A post-Katrina homebuilding project gives hope for weathering severe storms	Emily Gertz	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi on August 29, 2005, the storm's 125-mile-an-hour winds and 25-foot wall of seawater ground homes, boats, and businesses into matchsticks across the state's three coastal counties: Jackson, Hancock, and Harrison. The cities of Waveland and Bay St. Louis, roughly 20 miles east of the Mississippi-Louisiana state line, were practical ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, green building, Mississippi, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics)

Obamamississippi	David Roberts	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Yahoo, Yazoo EPA moves to veto wetland-destructive Army Corps project		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:58 PM on 04 Feb 2008 The U.S. EPA has moved to block an Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project in the Mississippi Delta, the first time the agency has aimed to veto a Corps project since 1990. The $220 million project would have built the world's largest hydraulic pump, sucking dry enough wetland area to cover New York City in order to protect a sparsely populated area of soybean fields from Yazoo River flo ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat protection, Mississippi, news, politics, progress, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Another Headache FEMA sets deadline for Katrina trailer park closures		29 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:01 AM on 29 Nov 2007 What's worse than being a storm victim housed in a formaldehyde-soaked trailer that makes you sick? How about getting kicked out of said dwelling? FEMA has announced an accelerated schedule for moving 3,700 families out of trailers set up to house Hurricane Katrina refugees, pledging to be "with them every step of the way" as they seek permanent housing. But advocates are concerned t ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, Mississippi, news (all these topics)

No Forest for the Weary Gulf State forests ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, says study		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the Gulf States is well known (if occasionally ignored), but the storm also brutalized the region's forests. A new study published in Science reports that Katrina destroyed some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, leading to a laundry list of problems. Federal funding for replanting has been slow in coming, and many pri ...
Topics: deforestation, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

Fume and Far Between FEMA prohibits employees from entering toxic trailers		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:54 AM on 09 Nov 2007 Concerned about formaldehyde fumes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has prohibited its employees from entering thousands of stored trailers. And the hurricane victims living in some 50,000 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi? Well, FEMA hasn't gotten around to seeing if those trailers are toxic yet -- last week, the agency postponed plans to begin testing -- but eh, they'll be f ...
Topics: health, insanity, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, toxics (all these topics)

Stories from the Forgotten Coast With the Katrina-anniversary media gone, the hard work continues	Annie Ducmanis	23 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors website. FEMA trailer camp, Plaquemines Parish, La. Photo: Marni Rosen The many communities of color along the Gulf Coast, be they African American, Creole, Native American, or Vietnamese American, have much in common -- and not just because they're still struggling to get back on their ...
Topics: climate change impacts, environmental justice, Louisiana, Mississippi, severe weather (all these topics)

Moving Stricture Corps may buy out coastal Miss. towns, encourage residents to move inland		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 02 Oct 2007 The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking support from three coastal Mississippi counties for a proposal to buy out 17,000 homes and encourage residents to move inland. The Corps generally reserves buyouts for areas prone to river flooding; the new proposal is an indication that the U.S. may be seriously considering the risk of sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and stronger hu ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change impacts, Mississippi, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands Painfully aware that their state is sinking, Louisiana politicians are pushing a $50 billion plan to fight wetlands erosion by unleashing the Mississippi River. The river built much of the southeastern part of the state over time, through sediment deposits. But levees and other restraints have kept it on an ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is Fined Insurer slapped with $2.5 million penalty in post-Katrina jury decision		12 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm is Fined Insurer slapped with $2.5 million penalty in post-Katrina jury decision If a house falls in the Gulf Coast region and no insurer is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Heck yes -- in this case, a $2.7 million boom that's ricocheting around the country. Yesterday, a federal jury ordered insurance company State Farm to compensate a Biloxi, Miss., couple whose home was destroyed by Hur ...
Topics: business, Mississippi, news (all these topics)

The Freak-Out Before the Storm Officials try to scare Americans into preparing for hurricane season		31 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Freak-Out Before the Storm Officials try to scare Americans into preparing for hurricane season As hurricane season approaches, officials in storm-prone states are determined to scare residents into being ready to take care of themselves -- because as we all saw last year, government sure ain't up to the job. Florida officials are broadcasting public service announcements with recordings of terrified ...
Topics: environmental planning, Florida, Mississippi, news (all these topics)

Walk This Way A virtual walking tour of Columbia, Miss., with Charlotte Keys of Jesus People Against Pollution	Mary Wiltenburg	13 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. �� Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. In 1977, a factory in Columbia, Miss., that had been manufacturing Agent Orange was rocked by an explosion. The owner, Reichhold Chemical Inc., shuttered the facility and abandoned or buried thousands of barrels of toxic waste near the water supply of the pr ...
Topics: environmental justice, Mississippi, Poverty and the Environment, religion and spirituality, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution		21 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution The Gulf Coast's estuaries, wetlands, and cypress swamps are hurting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The storm damaged 25 national wildlife refuges, and recovery costs are expected to be at least $93 million -- about a quarter of the federal refuge budget. In Mississippi's Noxubee refuge, pine trees crucial ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, news, oceans, toxics, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Reality of Bites Coastal Mississippi braces for resurgence of mosquitoes post-Katrina		14 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Reality of Bites Coastal Mississippi braces for resurgence of mosquitoes post-Katrina Of the 175-odd species of mosquitoes in the United States, 56 call Mississippi home, and eight to 10 in particular hang out on the state's Gulf Coast. And more than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina blew adult mosquitoes away, the eggs they left behind are starting to hatch, releasing new populations of youngsters hungry for human blood. W ...
Topics: Mississippi, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Turtle Wane		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Wane Having depleted their own nation's once-plentiful turtle populations, Chinese buyers are now offering top dollar for turtles from the southern U.S. In the last three years, there's been a dramatic upswing in the number of turtles exported to China, where the animals' meat is considered a delicacy and their shells are ground up to make virility powders. In 2002, ...
Topics: Alabama, China, marine life, Mississippi, North Carolina, South, South Carolina (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

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