May 5, 2010 -
The Environmental Protection Agency released not one but two proposals yesterday for regulating coal ash waste from power plants: a stricter rule that would empower the federal government to oversee the material like other hazardous waste, and a less stringent rule that would treat it like ordinary trash and leave oversight up to the states.
May 4, 2010 -
The Georgia Public Service Commission violated state law when it granted a permit to build two new nuclear reactors at the Southern Company/Georgia Power Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Ga.
May 3, 2010 -
the largest offshore oil drilling contractor in the world. Transocean has its roots in Birmingham, Ala., where it spun off from Sonat, Inc. in 1993.
May 3, 2010 -
The chief executive of BP says crews have been able to reduce the amount of oil reaching the Gulf's surface from a massive underwater leak by using chemicals at the gusher's source -- but envi
May 3, 2010 -
An alert that was sent out on Sunday, May 2 by the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper:
April 30, 2010 -
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica BP, the global oil giant responsible for the fast-spreading spill soon to make landfall in the Gulf of Mexico, is no stranger to major accidents.