City breaks ground on $68 million expansion of waste water treatment facility
The roughly $68 million expansion at the La Crosse Isle La Plume Wastewater Treatment Facility has officially begun, marking the start of a project that...
Enbridge causes conflict, climate change
There is a large tar sands pipeline currently being constructed from Canada through the midwest, ending at Lake Superior in Superior, Wisconsin. It is called...
Starkville Utilities Customers to Benefit from Clean Renewable Energy
Local renewable energy will soon be available as Starkville Utilities makes the City of Starkville the first municipality in Mississippi to sign a Tennessee Valley...
More Coal Cuts—AEP, Mississippi Power Detail Closures
American Electric Power (AEP), which in 2019 reached an agreement to close Unit 1 of the two-unit, 2.6-GW coal-fired Rockport power plant in Indiana, has...
Mississippi AG joins lawsuit to challenge Biden Administration’s executive order
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, along with nine state attorneys general, are suing to prevent the Biden Administration from carrying out an executive order. In...
Mississippi Power to retire 976 MW of fossil fuels by 2027
Mississippi Power plans to retire the majority of its fossil steam fleet, the utility announced in a Friday filing of its 2021 integrated resource plan (IRP).
Crisis in Jackson Shows Why Water Investments Are Needed Now
Last week, more than a month after storms crippled the water system in the city, Jackson, Mississippi lifted its boil water notice. What on the...
Jackson receives $475k grant to combat climate change in poor communities
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has announced that the city has received a $475,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help mitigate the...