Environment
December 5, 2007 -
We recently reported on the effort led by the fossil-fuel-funded John Locke Foundation and Heartland Institute to scuttle North Carolina's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas pollution.
December 5, 2007 -
Storms bringing heavy rainfall are now 24 percent more frequent across the United States today than they were 60 years ago, including in many areas of the South.
December 4, 2007 -
By Bill Quigley Guest contributor
November 30, 2007 -
There are reports of confusion and anger at FEMA trailer parks today over the agency's unclear policy on the parks' future.
November 28, 2007 -
Raymond Seed, a civil engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has sent a 42-page letter [PDF] to the head of the American Society of Civil Engineers alleging that the organization colluded with the Army Corps of Engine
November 27, 2007 -
Their annual migration is underway, and Sandhill Cranes are beginning to arrive at the Hiwassee Refuge.
November 26, 2007 -
The Washington Post published an excellent report in yesterday's paper on the deep divide in the post-Katrina recovery along the Mississippi coast, where beyond the bright lights of the newly built casinos working-class neighborhoods remain in darkness and more than 10,000 displac