Environment
April 12, 2010 -
Following the disastrous spill of a billion gallons of coal ash waste from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in December 2008, poorly regulated coal ash impoundments like the one that failed have landed in the public spotlight.
April 7, 2010 -
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest President Obama's drill-baby-drill (but not quite everywhere) gambit
April 6, 2010 -
In the worst disaster to strike the U.S. coal mining industry in a quarter-century, 25 miners have been confirmed dead so far from an explosion that occurred yesterday afternoon at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va., about 30 miles south of the state capital of Charleston.
April 2, 2010 -
For the first time in history, an international human rights body has agreed to review a case involving allegations of environmental racism in the United States.
March 30, 2010 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica