Health and Public Safety
March 24, 2011 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest After hearing the term "meltdown" used so often as a metaphor for the financial crisis, it is shocking to confront the prospect of a literal meltdown at some of Japan's nuclear reactors in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. There is something the two situations have in common: corporate misconduct. The company that operates the heavily damaged reactors, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), is one of the most unethical large corporations
March 23, 2011 -
An environmental chemist whose work has helped illuminate the ongoing health impacts of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster will be the recipient of a human rights award from Global Exchange, an organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice around the world
March 21, 2011 -
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a large oil sheen off the Louisiana coast about 20 miles north of the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up last April.
March 17, 2011 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica
March 16, 2011 -
With the nuclear crisis in Japan growing more alarming by the hour, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
