Environment
November 18, 2009 -
Here at Facing South, we've reported a lot on the affordable housing crisis still gripping New Orleans as the city enters the fifth year of post-Katrina recovery.To address the problem, policy-makers and advocates have focused on supply, pushing to preserve or build affordable ho
November 13, 2009 -
Charges were dismissed today against Ken Davies, an attorney from Charlotte, N.C. who was arrested earlier this year during a civil disobedience action against Duke Energy's new Cliffside coal-fired power plant now under construction in western North Carolina.
November 12, 2009 -
Earlier this year President Obama canceled the federal government's plans to store high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and weapons facilities at the controversial Yucca Mountain site in Nevada -- but now there are concerns that South Carolina could become a permanent dumping ground for the dangerous waste.
November 11, 2009 -
The North Carolina Utilities Commission handed a setback last week to environmental activists working to halt construction of Duke Energy's new coal-fired power plant at its Cliffside facility in the western part of the state.