environmental health

January 19, 2012 - More than three years after a disaster at a Tennessee power plant, the Obama administration still has not issued promised protections from coal ash hazards. Environmental groups plan to sue to spur action.

January 5, 2012 - The Alabama Department of Environmental Management faces charges of race discrimination for permitting a landfill in an African-American community to take the toxic waste spilled in the 2008 Kingston coal ash disaster.

January 3, 2012 - While BP is running ads touting its Gulf cleanup, the major media and politicians are ignoring the voices of residents who have a different story to tell. Will this be the year they're finally heard?

December 28, 2011 - Though the oil stopped gushing from the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster last year, Gulf Coast residents are facing an ongoing environmental health crisis from exposure to toxins in the crude and the dispersants used to break up the slick -- one of Facing South's top stories of 2011.

December 2, 2011 - Results suggest that dangerously high levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde linger in the more than 130,000 trailers that the federal agency provided to families displaced by the 2005 disaster.

November 30, 2011 - A new report tallies a disturbing number of accidents at the state's oil refineries in 2010 -- and offers recommendations for addressing the problem.

November 14, 2011 - As Keystone XL pipeline protesters savor their victory, a battle for justice rages in the Gulf.