Environment
August 12, 2008 -
The Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group for the U.S. nuclear industry, is in the process of selecting at least two rural U.S. communities to serve as potential dump sites for highly radioactive spent fuel from the nation's nuclear power plants.
August 11, 2008 -
Environmental Defense and the Texas Clean Air Cities Coalition have agreed to drop their opposition to NRG's proposed expansion of a coal-burning power facility in East Texas in exchange for a number of environmental concessions from the New Jersey-based energy company.
August 7, 2008 -
More news today about AREVA, the French state-owned nuclear company whose experimental mixed-oxide fuel assembly had to be removed from Duke Energy's Catawba plant in South Carolina aft
August 5, 2008 -
The closing of FEMA trailer parks, hastened by unhealthy levels of formaldehyde in the trailers, has highlighted continued problems faced by Katrina evacuees three years after the disaster: the lack of affordable housing, inadequate social safety nets, and the risk of falling into homelessness.
August 1, 2008 -
CNN reports that FEMA officials were subjected to sharp questioning in Thursday's joint congressional hearing that examined how FEMA supplies meant for Katrina and Rita victims sat unused and were ultimately marked as surplus and distributed to other states and federal agencies.
August 1, 2008 -
A bipartisan commission held a hearing Thursday to investigate illegal housing discrimination practices following Hurricane Katrina. The day-long hearing held in Houston, entitled "The Re-Segregation on the Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina," represents the second leg of the new commission's five-city investigation on the state of fair housing in America.
July 30, 2008 -
The Times-Picayune reports that repeated changes in rules for the Road Home recovery program have made it more difficult for applicants to collect the same grants they were once promised by the program.