PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- The proposed use of the Richton salt dome to expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been completely halted with the cancellation of funding for an environmental impact ...

RICHTON, MS (WDAM)-The Federal Government has terminated its plan to possibly use the Richton salt domes as part of the nation's strategic petroleum reserve. The department of energy removed the ...

A plan to expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by drawing 50 million gallons of water a day from the Pascagoula River to carve out space for oil in the Richton Salt Dome is no longer in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy has re-evaluated the need for increasing the nation's strategic oil reserve capacity and has dropped the Richton salt dome project from its budget.

The project will cover about 10,000 acres of land in Perry County, including the area known as the Richton Salt Dome. Through a process known as electrolysis, ...

JACKSON, MISS. — The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen a Mississippi salt dome for the strategic petroleum reserve, a project with a price tag of at least $1 billion, U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering ...

Washington | A salt dome in southeastern Mississippi has been chosen for expansion of the government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Energy Department announced Friday. The site near Richton ...

GULFPORT - U.S. Department of Energy plans to store petroleum in a Richton salt dome appear dead and the $82 million appropriated for it since 2008 either redirected or returned to the U.S ...

These long-term renewable hydrogen storage salt domes in Richton will be interconnected to new pipeline infrastructure and will further connect multiple salt domes from Louisiana to Jackson ...

A project you've probably never heard of promises hundreds of new jobs for South Mississippi. But it also poses significant environmental concerns. It involves increasing the nation's Strategic ...

Wednesday night "The Sierra Club" held an informational session about plans for a national depository in the Richton salt dome and how it might affect gulf coast waterways. However, not everyone ...

The Mississippi Energy Institute is pushing for more exploration of storing and reprocessing used nuclear fuel in Mississippi at the same time that one of the state's congressmen is coming out against ...