Environment
May 29, 2009 -
By Jordan Flaherty
May 28, 2009 -
Jim Stephenson, the policy director of the North Carolina Coastal Federation, died early today of an apparent stroke or heart attack. He was 57.
May 28, 2009 -
By James Perry, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
May 26, 2009 -
Seven people were arrested for trespassing Sunday during a nonviolent protest against a Massey Energy subsidiary's plans to blast just 100 feet away from a massive dam holding back billions of gallons of toxic coal waste in the mountains of West Virginia.
May 22, 2009 -
A proposal to mine uranium in south-central Virginia advanced this week when a key state body approved a study of the matter. The targeted site is in Virginia's Pittsylvania County just north of the city of Danville and close to the border with North Carolina's Rockingham and Caswell counties.
