Environment
February 13, 2009 -
High arsenic levels have been discovered in water
February 13, 2009 -
The Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday that it will release its final report on providing Category 5 protection for southern Louisiana on Aug. 31st. This will come almost two years after the deadline initially set by Congress, and the third announced delay.
February 12, 2009 -
Clean energy advocates scored a victory yesterday when a provision to provide $50 billion worth of taxpayer loan guarantees for new nuclear and high-tech coal plants was stripped out of the final version of the economic stimulus bill negotiated by the House and Senate.
February 9, 2009 -
More than three years after Hurricane Katrina, billions of dollars that could go to rebuilding the Gulf region remain bottled up by bureaucratic red tape, Louisiana lawmakers say.
February 6, 2009 -
Not all of the coal ash produced by power plants ends up in surface impoundments like the one that collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee. Some of it ends up being mixed with sewage sludge and other waste and spread on food crops -- especially in the South.
February 6, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera As the federal government prepares to spend billions of dollarspromoting the creation of green jobs as part of the huge economyrecovery bill, a new report warns that the jobs already being createdin climate-friendly sectors of the economy do not always measure up interms of wages and other terms of employment. The report, entitled High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy,was produced by Good Jobs First (yours truly was the principal author).
