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Republican Gov. Tate Reeves late last month declared a state of emergency for Jackson after torrential rains and flooding of the Pearl River overwhelmed the water treatment plant there, creating dangerously low water and knocking out delivery of clean drinking water to tens of thousands of residents. President Joe Biden quickly followed by issuing an emergency declaration, entitling the state to help and money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since then, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District has begun performing an assessment of pumps at the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant, the facility at the center of the crisis. The city’s water system has for years been the target of EPA enforcement, with the agency issuing emergency orders and notices of noncompliance and flag...

The White House will give Podesta a team within the Executive Office of the President under the newly created White House Office on Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation. The order emphasized the new office, working in tandem with the climate policy office, would help speed clean energy deployment, reduce the cost of energy efficient appliances, boost U.S. domestic manufacturing that would create more jobs, put electric vehicles on the road and lower energy costs. Scientists and activists have warned that the White House must not squander the law’s opportunities because nations are far off from meeting global climate targets to keep temperatures in check, and U.S. progress — given its status as the world’s largest economy and historical contributor to climate change — is crucial. But ...