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News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 13, 2021

MDEQ deploys four “litter getters” on the Gulf Coast

MDEQ awarded $162,150 to Mississippi State University’s Coastal Research and Extension Center for the project. Last week, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) announced the deployment of four litter collectors on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The devices are floating structures that use booms to direct the flow of water and litter into a trap.…
News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
December 13, 2021

State Auditor, MDES work to recover unemployment overpayments

“We will continue to point out where your [money] has been lost and demand better results,” White said. In June, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White’s office released their annual audit and discovered $117 million in improper unemployment payments made by Mississippi’s Department of Employment Security (MDES) between the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and June…