WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will prepare an environmental assessment for the Southeast Compression Utility and Reliability Expansion (SECURE) Project. This proposal from Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC, seeks to install facilities in Madison Parish, Louisiana, and in Jasper, Forrest, and Hinds Counties, Mississippi. The initiative would modify three existing compressor stations and build a fourth. Its purpose is to provide 280,000 dekatherms per day   more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Aug. 14 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * Getting nourishment to where it matters: MSU's Chen addressing food insecurity with Amazon AI, in-state food bank partnership STARKVILLE, Miss.--Devin Chen gained an intimate understanding of how food brings people together as he grew up working in his parents' Louisville restaurant. Now, the junior cybersecurity major is using skills he's learning at Mississippi State, artificial intelligence to  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON MAXWELL & CHAMBERLIN NOMINATIONS TO U.S. DISTRICT COURT * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding President Trump nominating Mississippi Supreme Court Associate Justices James D. Maxwell II of Oxford and Robert P. Chamberlin of Hernando to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest from Madison Services Inc. of Madison, Mississippi, challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service's award of a contract to Unify Now, Inc., a small business located in Oakland, California. The contract, for preventative maintenance services on Alcatraz Island, was awarded to Unify Now following a best-value trade-off analysis. Madison Services protested the decision, arguing that the agency'  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Aug. 14 -- The University of Louisiana Lafayette campus issued the following news: * * * National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward to present 2025 Levy Lecture Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award recipient and the youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, will present the 2025 Flora Plonsky Levy Lecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Ward's literary work reflects the culture of the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast, where she gre  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) to address persistent flooding issues in Missouri's St. Johns Watershed. This study, which will be carried out by the Missouri State Office, will cover lands adjacent to the St. Johns Bayou and St. James Ditches in Mississippi, New Madrid, and Scott Counties. The area faces flood damage from impounded interior runoff whenever Mississippi R  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 14 -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: * * * Could Rice Production Take Root in Tennessee? Farmers Look to Diversify Crops, Improve Profitability DYERSBURG, Tenn. - Rice is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, with the United States alone estimated to plant almost 3 million acres in 2025, according to the USDA. Most is grown in the Rice Belt, which includes Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana   more