Latest Mississippi Environment News
- Crews scramble to clean up massive spill on Mississippi 25 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT
... — A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from New ... said the work could take weeks. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird ...
- A voice in the desert 25 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT
... founding director of the University of Arizona's Environmental Research Lab, Hodges has attracted an eclectic ... calculates that diverting the equivalent of three Mississippi Rivers inland would do the trick. He ... Exequiel Ezcurra, former head of Mexico's National Ecology Institute. "We have had catastrophes in the ...
- Gulf Coast states tout pact 25 Jul 2008 07:28 GMT
... A consortium of energy producers, environmental groups and civic leaders unveiled the preliminary ... participants, who include representatives from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, said they will develop by ... rebuilds a disappearing coastline while protecting the ecological systems and economic viability of a region ...
- Ships chaos as oil spill paralyses Mississippi 25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
... Ships chaos as oil spill paralyses Mississippi 25/07/2008 - class='storybody'>Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical ... and Atmospheric Administration. State authorities were optimistic environmental damage could be contained, reporting no problems ...
- Massive oil spill on Mississippi covers river for nearly 100 miles 25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
... 9:58 p.m. PT Massive oil spill on Mississippi covers river for nearly 100 miles NEW ... the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird ...
- Oil-spill cleanup halts ship traffic on the Mississippi 25 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT
... from traversing a closed stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf ... keep oil away from water intakes and environmentally fragile areas, said Paul Book, the company’s ...
- Changing directions 25 Jul 2008 05:51 GMT
... such drilling could be done with necessary environmental safeguards in place, the United States would ... would begin production at a plant in Mississippi that had been slated to produce SUVs. ...
- Probe into Mississippi River oil spill begins with cleanup 25 Jul 2008 05:51 GMT
... WASHINGTON — Almost 100 miles of the Mississippi River were closed to shipping Thursday after ... oil and prevent it from spreading into environmentally sensitive areas, and an additional 30,000 feet ...
- Obituary Harrison 'Bud' Tordoff, 85 / U scientist's restoration efforts revived peregrine falcon population 25 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT
... 1980s, Tordoff — a University of Minnesota ecology professor who also served as director of the ... the form of pigeons and the nearby Mississippi River. The first peregrine was released in ...
- Power plant opponents speak up at SATV forum 25 Jul 2008 05:46 GMT
... members of the Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE) got an early start in going ... of the possible impacts attributed to have global warming — would have on Salem. The latter, ... as the “largest polluter east of the Mississippi River.” Dionne discussed the power-plant industries two ...
- Oil Spill on Nearly 100 Miles of Mississippi River 25 Jul 2008 05:13 GMT
... — A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the ... the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird ...
- Miss. River spill idles ship... 25 Jul 2008 05:12 GMT
... Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between ... and Atmospheric Administration. State authorities were optimistic environmental damage could be contained, reporting no problems from ... to join farm chemical runoff and other pollutants dumped in along the Mississippi’s 2,300-mile length ...
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript 25 Jul 2008 05:10 GMT
... 2008 of $0.34 per share for an environmental charge and additional personal injury accruals both ... of the country along and near the Mississippi were impacted. This photo taken out of ...
- Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans 25 Jul 2008 05:00 GMT
... NEW ORLEANS - A stretch of the Mississippi River at New Orleans could be closed ... keep oil away from water intakes and environmentally fragile areas, said Paul Book, vice president ...
- Spill closes Miss. River, shuts off exports 25 Jul 2008 04:41 GMT
... New Orleans since 2005's Hurricane Katrina snarled Mississippi River traffic Thursday and brought flows of ... reported yet, but the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality was monitoring, spokesman Rodney Mallett said. ...
- Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever 25 Jul 2008 04:41 GMT
... Louisiana coast at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The fresh water and salt water don't ... zone, believed to be caused by nutrient pollution from fertilizers that empty into rivers and eventually ...
- Spill Closes Miss. River From New Orleans to Gulf 25 Jul 2008 04:38 GMT
... traffic on a 97-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf ... reported yet, but the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality was monitoring, spokesman Rodney Mallett said. ...
- Scrambling to Contain Mississippi River Oil Spill 25 Jul 2008 03:56 GMT
... — A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the ... the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird ...
- Miss. River spill idles ships near New Orleans 25 Jul 2008 03:55 GMT
... Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between ... and Atmospheric Administration. State authorities were optimistic environmental damage could be contained, reporting no problems from ... to join farm chemical runoff and other pollutants dumped in along the Mississippi's 2,300-mile length ...
- Miss. River oil spill idles ships near New Orleans 25 Jul 2008 02:54 GMT
... Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between ... and Atmospheric Administration. State authorities were optimistic environmental damage could be contained, reporting no problems from ... to join farm chemical runoff and other pollutants dumped in along the Mississippi's 2,300-mile length ...
- Coast Guard Scrambling to Contain Oil Spill 25 Jul 2008 02:31 GMT
... — A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the ... the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Some environmentalists worried about reports of fish and bird ...
- Mississippi River oil spill idles ships near New Orleans on nation's bustling waterway 25 Jul 2008 02:27 GMT
... and Atmospheric Administration. State authorities were optimistic environmental damage could be contained, reporting no problems from ... to join farm chemical runoff and other pollutants dumped in along the Mississippi's 2,300-mile length and its tributaries. ...
- Police standoff ends in apparent suicide 25 Jul 2008 02:23 GMT
... Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a ... gallons of oil into the bay and pollutes a majestic stretch of the California coastline, resulting in ...
- Aflatoxin attacks corn 25 Jul 2008 02:20 GMT
... by the fire, so there is no pollution.” Turning to the subject of the yields ... the barge traffic up and down the Mississippi River, the difference between our low price and ...
- An interview with Starhawk; sacred activism, collapse and the role of permaculture 25 Jul 2008 01:57 GMT
... and someone else would say “what about Mississippi, we're not even talking about Mississippi, and ... people to feel that grief. Often, as environmentalists, we tend to be extremely judgemental about ...
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