Environment
July 27, 2009 -
U.S. lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a new independent federal agency to promote government investment in clean energy.
July 24, 2009 -
The crazy quilt of regulations governing coal ash disposal across the United States got a new patch this week when North Carolina lawmakers passed a law requiring stricter regulation of coal ash impoundments, the giant lagoons where utility companies store the nearly 6 million pounds of toxic combustion waste generated each year at electric power plants.
July 21, 2009 -
Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft.
July 20, 2009 -
As Facing South reported, community groups have launched efforts to ensure an accurate 2010 Census count in the Gulf Coast, a region still dealing with mass displacement from the 2005 hurricanes.