The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has awarded $295,920 to 17 school districts to apply to the purchase of new school buses for the upcoming school year. The rebates were provided to the school districts toward the purchase of new diesel powered buses with more stringent pollution controls to replace older buses thus reducing emissions of particulate matter, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide.
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MDEQ Issues Two Beach Advisories in Pass Christian
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, issued water contact advisories Thursday for Stations 5 and 6 in Pass Christian.
MDEQ Lifts Beach Advisory in Biloxi
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a water contact advisory Saturday for Station 11A in Biloxi (Edgewater Beach). There are no advisories in effect across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
