Health and Public Safety

February 15, 2012 - A new mapping tool helps illustrate the serious health impacts of a particularly destructive form of coal mining.

February 2, 2012 - The Dallas-based Susan B. Komen Foundation is in the spotlight for its decision to sever funding to Planned Parenthood. But a Southern Exposure investigation a decade ago exposed other controversies, including the money it takes from polluters and pharmaceutical companies and its fierce opposition to health care reform.

January 25, 2012 - As the Environmental Protection Agency readies a long-awaited report on a class of health-damaging pollutants known as dioxins, we look at the biggest industrial dioxin sources in the U.S. -- and find that the South bears a disproportionate toxic burden.

January 20, 2012 - A new video from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network features first-hand accounts from mothers and grandmothers about the chronic health problems affecting an alarming number of children who live in Gulf Coast communities impacted by the 2010 BP oil spill.

January 9, 2012 - The amount of toxic coal ash that's being dumped at power plants in the region and nationwide is growing -- at the same time some members of Congress are trying to block strict regulation of such disposal.

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?