Ag secretary Vilsack announces goal for cutting food waste
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a goal Wednesday to cut the amount of food that Americans waste by 50 percent by 2030.
GAO: Gov’t waste of natural gas costing taxpayers millions
Significant amounts of natural gas on federal lands are being wasted, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year and adding to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a congressional investigation has found.
Rabbit massages among government waste
A maverick Republican senator criticized faulty missile defenses, unneeded airports and golf course repairs among the projects completed on the taxpayers’ tab.
Company stopped from accepting abortion waste
County commissioners gave final approval Thursday to an order to stop an incinerator in Oregon from receiving medical waste until procedures are in place to ensure no fetal tissue is burned to generate power.
J5 Broaddus using study to assist public works
Columbus’ project managing firm will run the city’s public works department starting Monday.
The arrangement will last a month, according to J5 Broaddus senior project manager Robyn Eastman.
J5 Broaddus: City public works waste could exceed $1M
A study conducted by the city’s project managing firm — one that lead to placing GPS trackers on city trucks to track their whereabouts — revealed a potential waste of more than $1 million in the city’s public works department.
Our view: Who stands for the environment?
Earlier this week, The Dispatch was the first to report on Columbus Light & Water’s refusal to process KiOR’s wastewater. The news was the latest in a string of bad news for the Texas-based public company, which has invested over $200 million in its Columbus plant.
Voice of the People: Brandon Presley
Say no to nuclear waste The news out of Jackson week before last that our governor and certain lobbying groups have been planning, behind the
Charlie Mitchell: Any hint of ‘nuclear’ merits a full, transparent response
OXFORD — There was a dust-up last week about whether Mississippi should ever-ever-ever become a home for nuclear waste. Guess what? Mississippi has been a
Bryant: Nuclear waste opponents ‘overreacting’
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant is interested in Mississippi getting in on “recycling” or reprocessing nuclear waste, and perhaps manufacturing components for reactors, not nuclear
Heavy price: Medicare overpaying for back braces
You can find it on the Internet for $250 or less. But if Medicare is paying, a standard-issue brace for back patients costs more than $900.
Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year
The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign.
Waste Pro acquires Mississippi Industrial Waste
A longtime local leader in the commercial solid waste industry is changing hands, but company officials say customers should see little to no change.