Pearl River flooding has renewed urgency for regional control efforts, including a controversial plan to build a dam in Jackson that would create a 1,500-acre lake, widen the river and make way for commercial development.
Industry, business and agricultural groups cheered the announcement, but Earthjustice President Abigail Dillen called the repeal of the 2015 rule “shameful and dangerous. No one is above the law, including the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.