Environment
June 14, 2007 -
The nuclear industry likes to promote itself as a clean energy source -- a message that's a key theme in its current public-relations offensive promoting its product as the environmentally benign alternative to dirty coal-fir
June 13, 2007 -
We reported last week on the unsealing of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by former insurance adjusters alleging that eight insurance companies defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage cause
June 12, 2007 -
Last week we discussed the Florida Public Service Commission's decision to deny a permit for a proposed coal-fired power plant near the Everglades, and how Florida Power and Light now proposes a
June 7, 2007 -
As my fellow Facing South blogger Randy Neal reports today, the Florida Public Service Commission this week unanimously
June 7, 2007 -
Earlier this week, the Florida Public Service Commission denied a Florida Power and Light "Needs Determination" permit for a huge coal-fired power plant on 4900 acres of wilderness near the Everglades National Park in Glades Co. Florida, effectively killing the project.
June 6, 2007 -
New Orleans housing advocates are holding a rally today in support of H.R. 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act.
June 4, 2007 -
Hurricane Katrina is still killing people almost two years after it struck. Or is it? There's some disagreement in the medical community -- though the closer one gets to local front-line caregivers, the stronger the consensus becomes that the storm continues to claim the lives of those who survived the immediate destruction.
