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September 23, 2013

Geoff Pender: Budget hearing or grudge match?

Geoff Pender: Budget hearing or grudge match? Normally a large spending request from K-12 education, or a projected $77 million shortfall for Medicaid, or $22.4 million for corrections would dominate the High Street chatter around the annual legislative budget hearings. But the buzz about last week’s hearings centers on the Curious Case of the Flubbed…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 23, 2013

Kemper plant sullied in WSJ – EPA says Kemper ‘not a good model’

EPA Unveils Plan to Curb Emissions From New Coal Plants Of the projects, a plant known as the Kemper County Energy Facility is the only one under construction in the U.S. Located in Mississippi, the 580-megawatt plant will gasify coal and then capture 65% of the carbon dioxide. Kemper’s parent company, Atlanta-based Southern Co., says…