Health and Public Safety
July 24, 2009 -
The crazy quilt of regulations governing coal ash disposal across the United States got a new patch this week when North Carolina lawmakers passed a law requiring stricter regulation of coal ash impoundments, the giant lagoons where utility companies store the nearly 6 million pounds of toxic combustion waste generated each year at electric power plants.
July 23, 2009 -
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media
July 22, 2009 -
For Obama and Democratic leaders anxiously -- desperately? -- trying to pass health care reform by the end of the summer, every week seems to present a new obstacle likely to derail the whole plan. The current Obstacle of the Week: Rep. Mike Ross, a conservative Democrat from small-town Arkansas who is currently leading a Blue Dog rebellion from his perch on the now-critical House Energy and Commerce Committee.
July 21, 2009 -
When Sen.
July 16, 2009 -
Activists gathered outside of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of NorthCarolina's headquarters in Chapel Hill Wednesday to protest the privateinsurer's opposition to President Barack Obama's proposed public optionas a part of health care reform.