Great news out of Mississippi! For years, the state has occupied the lowest position in the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, the industry authority for tracking state-level energy efficiency activities. Thanks to the leadership of Governor Phil Bryant and the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA), that’s about to change.
Mississippi State University has been designated a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management, becoming the tenth such institution in the Southeast. Representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and Mississippi State University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to help communities identify watershed based problems and develop and implement locally sustainable solutions.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed legislation Wednesday specifying that rating systems used in green building projects funded by the state government "shall not exclude certificate credits for forest products certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Forest Stewardship Council or the American Tree Farm System." The new law positively positions Mississippi wood products in green building projects while providing a market incentive for landowners to adopt or maintain sustainable forest practices.
Legal-Bay LLC, The Lawsuit Settlement Funding Company, announced today that they have secured a minimum of $10MM in investment capital from institutional investors to assist the Gulf Region with getting needed cash today to get their businesses back up and running. The capital amount is in addition to funds secured in late 2012 specifically "earmarked" for BP Claim funding.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has awarded Covington County a solid waste assistance grant of $15,544 that will be used by the county for a local solid waste enforcement officer.
“The Solid Waste Assistance Grants support a variety of useful solid waste management activities for cities and counties, and this grant will assist Covington County’s efforts in improving their management of solid waste,” said Trudy D. Fisher, MDEQ Executive Director.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice, and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) announced a comprehensive Clean Water Act settlement with the city of Jackson, Miss. Jackson has agreed to make improvements to its sewer systems to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and unauthorized bypasses of treatment at the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), the city’s largest wastewater treatment facility. When wastewater systems overflow, they can release untreated sewage and other pollutants into local waterways, threatening water quality and contributing to beach closures and disease outbreaks.
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