August 26, 2010 -
As we approach the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, today the Institute is releasing a new report which looks at what has changed -- and what hasn't changed -- since the deadly storm took over 1,800 lives and devastated the Gulf Coast.
August 24, 2010 -
This story was reported by Sabrina Shankman and Tom Jennings of Frontline,
August 24, 2010 -
Amount Florida utilities want to bill their customers in advance for planned new nuclear reactors: $200 million
August 24, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Yesterday, independent paymaster Kenneth Feinberg took the reins from BP in managing damage claims from the Gulf oil spill. He has promised to make sweeping improvements in BP's system, which has been criticized by applicants as slow, bureaucratic and lacking in transparency. Our checklist of the fixes that Feinberg has promised describes the changes claimants can expect as Feinberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility
August 23, 2010 -
By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as