Environment
July 9, 2007 -
Poor Fred Thompson.
July 6, 2007 -
Families in desperate need of housing while FEMA trailers moulder in distant fields. Homeowners waiting endlessly for checks to fund rebuilding. Habitable public housing complexes boarded up while affordable apartments disappear.
July 5, 2007 -
Severe drought conditions -- the worst in more than a hundred years -- continue around the South, with widespread total crop losses reported in Alabama. Recent heavy rains reduced drought severity in some areas, and this six-week animiated map shows some improvement.
June 28, 2007 -
Located in North Carolina's Nantahala National Forest, the Tellico Off-Road Vehicle Area is one of the most heavily used ORV zones on public lands in the Southeast, with twice as many designated ORV trails as allowed by the U.S. Forest Service in addition to many illegal trails.
June 26, 2007 -
• There's good news from the North Carolina Legislature regarding a proposed renewable energy bill. The bill would require utilities to get 12.5% of their power from renewable sources and efficiency measures by 2021.
June 25, 2007 -
Federal agencies responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita doled out more than $2.4 billion in contracts that guaranteed profits for big companies, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based investigative journalism nonprofi
