Environment

January 13, 2009 - President-Elect Barack Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi received letters Friday urging the signing of an Executive Order authorizing the Gulf Coast Civic Works Program and the inclusion of $6.7 billion for Gulf Coast Civic Works projects to rebuild communities, restore the

January 13, 2009 - The sight of more than a billion gallons of

January 12, 2009 - In addition to the disastrous spill of

January 9, 2009 - The spill of over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge in Eastern Tennessee before Christmas was not only one of the biggest environmental disasters in history -- it also exposed the myth of "clean coal."

January 9, 2009 - At yesterday's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the spill of more than 1 billion gallon

January 8, 2009 - United Mountain Defense, an environmental group working with the residents of Harriman, Tenn. impacted by the recent coal ash disaster, has arranged to provide interested folks with testing for heavy metal exposure -- but money is proving to be a problem.

January 7, 2009 - Over the past week, Facing South has compiled a couple of reports looking at the extent of the environmental and public health threat from poorly regulated coal combustion waste.