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File image of North Gulfport residents traveling to Jackson in August 2019 to oppose the State Port's water quality cetification for a wetland fill on Port property. Photo Credit: A. Whitehurst, Healthy Gulf.

North Gulfport Residents Defend their Wetlands and Community Health Against Port Project

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Protect Clean Water

Citizens from North Gulfport oppose wetland filling that would allow the State Port to build a rail/truck transfer facility next to their neighborhoods. Environmental Justice issues are contained in the appeal. Residents who live adjacent to the project site are concerned that soil and water pollution contained there will be mobilized with development and affect their health, property and quality of life. A 70 year old brownfield site – a closed fertilizer plant – has left soil and groundwater tainted by arsenic, lead and carcinogens that could find their way to the surface if the site is developed. The evidentiary hearing on the Mississippi State Port Authority’s Clean Water Act State water quality certification began this week at the MDEQ Commission Room in Jackson, but is continued until May.

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Healthy Gulf Joins Conservation Groups in Yazoo Pumps Suit againt EPA

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Conserve Gulf Resources, Protect Clean Water

Healthy Gulf joined American Rivers, National Audubon Society and Sierra Club in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, asking a federal judge to rule on whether EPA’s 2008 Clean Water Act veto of the Yazoo Backwater Pump project still applies to a 2020 Army Corps of Engineers re-do. The project’s pumping capacity and purpose remain the same as the earlier project which was vetoed during the George W. Bush Administration. The project’s impacts to wetlands and habitats remain significant in the 2020 re-do version, and the Conservation Groups maintain that the veto still prohibits the pumps. EPA has used a Clean Water Act veto on a development project 13 times since 1972. The agency has slightly modified some vetoes after-the-fact, but has never completely revoked one.

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Yazoo Pumps (Again)

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Protect Clean Water

The controversial Yazoo Backwater Area pump project in the lower Mississippi Delta is again being advanced by the Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Mississippi. Much weight is given to a single new piece of Corps-sponsored research on soil moisture that the agency uses to conclude that a large pumping plant will not cause present wetland areas to change to non-wetland classification. The Corps’s justification of the pumps on these wetland effects is presented in a new Supplemental EIS that could open the door for the Environmental Protection Agency to revisit and rescind its 2008 veto of the project under the Clean Water Act.

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Update on One Lake and Pearl River: Letters to Army Corps, FOIA, Turtles, September Clean Sweep Event

Update on One Lake and Pearl River: Letters to Army Corps, FOIA, Turtles, September Clean Sweep Event

/ By / Conserve Gulf Resources, One River, No Lake, Protect Clean Water

This summary of news relevant to the Pearl River so far in 2020 includes notes on Jackson’s “One Lake” project, recent letters to the Secretary of the Army from Louisiana and Mississippi, Jackson Mississippi’s continuing sewage spills, the Pearl River Map Turtle’s status under the Endangered Species Act, and the Pearl River Clean Sweep – river clean up days in September.

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The Yazoo Pumps are a bad deal for the Mississippi Delta

The Yazoo Pumps are a bad deal for the Mississippi Delta

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Protect Clean Water

We need your help to stop a project that would cost $400 million dollars, destroy 200,000 acres of wetlands, and only be 32% effective at stopping flooding—leaving 68% of the recently flooded Mississippi Delta vulnerable to future floods. The Yazoo Pumps simply don’t add up for communities impacted by flooding or for taxpayers.

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Louisiana has a Choice: In response to “‘We’re screwed’ in the New Orleans Advocate

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Conserve Gulf Resources, Hold Industry Accountable, Land Loss Lookout, Louisiana Coast, Protect Clean Water

In response to “‘We’re screwed’: The only question is how quickly Louisiana wetlands will vanish, study says” published May 22, 2020 by Mark Schlefstein

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All Counties and Parishes opposing the One Lake Project proposed for the Pearl River Jackson.

One Lake Sponsors Play Hide and Seek with Project Costs and Benefits

/ By / Protect Clean Water

Economic justification for the One Lake project will be tough to examine if Corps agency technical reviews and independent peer reviews of the project are not released when the Final Environmental Impact Statement is published later this year. The Rankin Hinds Drainage District has jealously guarded access to these reviews so far.

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Disappointments and small wins: the 2020 FL Legislature

Disappointments and small wins: the 2020 FL Legislature

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Conserve Gulf Resources, Hold Industry Accountable, Protect Clean Water, Toxic Algae

This was the year. The one in which the Florida legislature was going to get serious about fixing the state’s toxic algae crisis. Actually, I said that last year, when Florida’s elected officials convened on the heels of a devastating 15 months of blue green algae and red tide fouling waterways on both the Gulf

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