Environment

November 15, 2010 - A river downstream of a privately-owned nuclear fuel processing plant in East Tennessee is contaminated with enriched uranium, according to an interim report by a university scientist that was released last week.

November 12, 2010 - By Ada McMahon, Bridge the Gulf BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. -- Like so many on the Gulf Coast, Ana Chau is dealing with two disasters.

November 11, 2010 - The House leadership in the newly elected 112th Congress has some big changes planned on the environmental policy front, from rollbacks of protective regulations to an assault on climate science.

November 10, 2010 - By Marian Wang, ProPublica As we noted earlier this week, members of the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill made clear that they don't believe individual BP

November 10, 2010 - By Robert Bullard, OpEdNews

November 9, 2010 - At the first gathering of the federal Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force that took place yesterday in Pensacola, Fla., the U.S. Justice Department pledged to launch swift criminal and civil investigations into the parties responsible for the Gulf oil disaster that killed 11 workers and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the region's ecosystem.

November 8, 2010 - Two nuclear power plants owned by New Orleans-based Entergy were forced to shut down over the weekend following serious operating problems, including a radioactive leak at one plant in Vermont.