Environment
January 25, 2010 -
With the Environmental Protection Agency expected to release its proposed regulations for power plant coal ash any day now, there is an intense behind-the-scenes lobbying effort by industry interests hoping to keep the waste from being declared hazardous and thus subject to the str
January 19, 2010 -
With the eyes of the world on the catastrophe in earthquake-stricken Haiti, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to the site of a domestic disaster last week, unveiling a program offering financial assistance to Gulf Coast communities devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
January 12, 2010 -
Environmental advocates were disappointed last month when Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that her agency would miss the promised end-of-the-year deadline to release a proposed regulation of coal ash.
January 12, 2010 -
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit last week that Mississippi social-justice groups brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for allowing the diversion of $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to expand the state port at Gulfport, Miss.
