Environment
April 27, 2007 -
The Bush administration yesterday announced that it would extend temporary housing assistance to survivors of Hurricane Katrina for another 18 months, until March 1, 2009. The program, which had already been extended, was set to expire on Aug. 31. About 80,000 Gulf Coast residents are still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers.
April 25, 2007 -
An audit conducted by a fair housing advocacy group has documented extensive racial discrimination in the New Orleans area rental housing market.
April 20, 2007 -
We've been covering a lot of environmental issues here at Facing South lately (especially Sue Sturgis, our resident environmental reporter).
April 19, 2007 -
After Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the industry's failure to deliver on promises of providing energy "too cheap to meter" (even with over $115 billion in federal subsidies since 1947), the future of nuclear energy had looked grim. A new reactor hasn't come on line in over 10 years.
April 11, 2007 -
The company's ads boast, "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."Æ But apparently the nation's largest insurer didn't want engineers who were actually neighbors of Hurricane Katrina victims to inspect storm-damaged properties, arguing that they were "too emotionally involved."
April 10, 2007 -
Record-low freezing temperatures around the South over this past weekend had a devastating impact on crops that could result in damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars and higher prices for produce in the coming months.
April 9, 2007 -
This coming Saturday, April 14 marks Step It Up 2007, the first National Day of Climate Action. There will be more than 1,300 gatherings across the country, from big rallies that aims to draw thousands, to modest global-warming awareness events organized by small groups of concerned citizens.
