Environment
April 17, 2008 -
While President Bush serves up a too-little, too-late plan for addressing climate change, the South faces growing water problems as a consequence of global warming.
April 16, 2008 -
Two weeks after the arrest of eight people protesting Duke Energy's plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in western North Carolina, another group of activists w
April 11, 2008 -
The December 2006 murder of Hot 8 Brass Band drummer and high school music teacher Dinerral Shavers shocked New Orleans.
April 9, 2008 -
Named after the Roman god of fire, Project Vulcan is a new system for mapping carbon dioxide emissions.
April 9, 2008 -
As Facing South readers know, federal leaders -- most notably Alphonso Jackson, who announced his resignation last Monday under a cloud of scandal from his perch at Housing and Urban Development --
April 8, 2008 -
Interest in alternative energy such as wind, geothermal, and solar is spreading beyond so-called "fringe" environmentalists and "tree huggers" to the business world. If there is any doubt, consider this: U.S. clean energy venture capital investments totaled $2.7 billion in 2007, a 70% increase over 2006.
April 7, 2008 -
Last week James E. Hansen, one of the nation's leading scientific experts on climate change, publicly released a letter he sent to Jim Rogers, CEO of North Carolina-based Duke Energy.