VICKSBURG, Mississippi, June 3 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Vicksburg District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District has announced changes to the length-of-stay policy at its campgrounds at its Mississippi lakes - Arkabutla, Enid, Grenada and Sardis - that have gone into effect as of June 1. Campers will be limited to a stay of no more than 14 consecutive days at a single USACE Vicksburg District campground. At the end of their 14  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Michigan, issued the following news release: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced membership of the Great Lakes Advisory Board (GLAB), an EPA federal advisory committee, at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resource Institute with U.S. Congressmen Bill Huizenga (MI-02) and Fred Upton (MI-06). Administrator Wheeler re-established the GLAB in December 2018 to provide advice and recommendations on ma  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 4 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2020 is that it will cover 7,769 square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas. The coronavirus pandemic has had no impact on the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. The unusually high Mississippi River discharge in May controls the size of this zone, which will likely be the 7th largest   more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: With federal scientists expected to forecast, within days, the size of this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, a new study shows that one of the dead zone's biggest causes--nitrogen that flows downriver from Midwest farms--has been responsible for up to $2.4 billion in damages to Gulf fish stocks and their habitat every year for more than 30 years. The amount of nitrogen coming off Midwest corn and  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release: NOAA scientists are forecasting this summer's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area or "dead zone" - an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life - to be approximately 6,700 square miles, larger than the long-term average measured size of 5,387 square miles but substantially less than the record of 8,776 square miles set in 2017. The annual pre  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. David Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) applauded the four Ohioans who were named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) newly re-established Great Lakes Advisory Board (GLAB). EPA Administrator Wheeler re-established the GLAB in December 2018 to provide advice and recommendations on matters related to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) and the implementation of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreem  more

HOUSTON, Texas, June 6 -- S&P Global Platts, a subsidiary of S&P Global, issued the following news: Energy producers shut about 30% of the US Gulf of Mexico's crude oil production and more than 20% of natural gas supplies as Cristobal strengthened back into a tropical storm and began its projected trek from southern Mexico to Louisiana. About 545,000 b/d of crude oil volumes and 601 MMcf/d of gas were shut with more expected to come offline late June 5 and through the weekend, according to the  more