Drax is celebrating 10 years of operating its wood pellet plant in Gloster, Mississippi. The plant was established in Amite County after the area's previous largest employer shut down in 2008. Drax ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blackmon Hole, a neighborhood of trailers in Gloster, Mississippi, sits next to the Drax Biomass production facility in the town.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality denied a permit request from the wood-pellet company Drax. Drax sought to increase air pollution in the town of Gloster, Mississippi. Residents and ...

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Town of Gloster, Mississippi entered into a July 8th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act National ...

Residents gather for a community Chat and Chew event with Mississippi’s U.S. Rep Bennie Thompson on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, in downtown Gloster, MS. Residents there gather to talk about their ...

GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town's expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins' home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...

GLOSTER, MS (WAFB) - It's a small town of about 1,000 people just north of the Louisiana border, tucked away with its southern charm: Gloster, Mississippi. But the quiet, little town of close knit ...

Residents of Gloster, Mississippi, are suing plant that exports wood pellets to UK and Europe. Company says it is reducing emissions When Helen Reed first learned about the bioenergy mill opening in ...

GLOSTER, MS (WAFB) - All East Feliciana Parish fire departments were called out to a fire in Gloster, MS Wednesday night that engulfed an abandoned Georgia Pacific plywood plant. Residents of Gloster ...

In April 2025, the town of Gloster, Mississippi, population 858, won a significant battle against the giant global wood pellet maker Drax, when the permitting board of the Mississippi Department of ...

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has fined a United Kingdom-based energy company for exceeding air pollution limits at its wood pellet plant in Gloster. On Sept. 10 and 11, Drax ...