obama administration
October 19, 2011 -
The Food & Drug Administration relied on flawed assumptions to allow up to 10,000 times the safe levels of a cancer-causing poison in seafood following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
October 18, 2011 -
The House voted last week to block the EPA from regulating coal ash as hazardous waste -- and now state waste officials are gearing up to fight strict federal oversight, too.
September 23, 2011 -
Republicans are exploiting the bankruptcy filing of the federally-backed solar equipment company to delegitimize Obama's renewable energy policies, but they're ignoring the fact that he's also promoted coal and nuclear power.
March 21, 2011 -
By Rebekah L. Cowell, special to Facing South
August 27, 2009 -
For many people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, the election of President Barack Obama to the White House last November brought a sense of renewed hope - or at least an opportunity to change the course of the region's stalled Katrina recovery.
April 29, 2009 -
Everyone else is chiming in with their grade on President Obama's first 100 days in office, so we thought we'd join in, too.