Gulf Coast
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 8, 2011 -
Gulf Coast advocates are pressing for greater fairness and openness in funding restoration efforts following the BP oil disaster.
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 29, 2011 -
The United Houma Nation is petitioning for federal tribal status while fighting to maintain a way of life imperiled by the BP oil disaster.
November 14, 2011 -
As Keystone XL pipeline protesters savor their victory, a battle for justice rages in the Gulf.
November 4, 2011 -
In the wake of this spring's disasters, the recovery in communities of color is complicated by racism.
