Environment
May 29, 2008 -
A new study from the Brookings Institution examines the carbon footprint of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas -- and finds that Southern cities dominate the lis
May 28, 2008 -
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will deliver his 2008 "State of the City" address this evening at the Port of New Orleans Cruise Terminal, and it's expected to be a boosterish affair, the Times-Picayune reports:
May 23, 2008 -
We wanted to pass along the following message from the folks at the Katrina Information Network:
May 22, 2008 -
Next month the U.S. Senate is expected to take up the Lieberman-Warner bill on climate change (S. 2191), legislation that would create a federally controlled market for carbon pollution by allowing industries to buy and sell emission allowances.
May 21, 2008 -
A new study by scientist Tom Knutson and colleagues offers a little bit of good news for the hurricane-battered South.
May 19, 2008 -
We've reported extensively here on allegations of cronyism and other problems with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's work in post-Katrina New Orleans -- problems that culminated in the resignation earlier this year of former HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, who remains under criminal in
May 16, 2008 -
As I reported yesterday, a national inter-faith group is expanding on the critical role that religious institutions have played in the Katrina rebuilding effort by launching the Isaiah Funds, an innovative loan and grant program to jump-start rebuilding in New Orleans.
