Environment
April 6, 2007 -
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today released its second summary report of the year, this one detailing the observed impacts of global warming on humans and the natural environment. The news is not good.
April 4, 2007 -
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund is currently hosting a conference in New Orleans titled "Greenlining Redlined America: T
April 3, 2007 -
In a somewhat surprise ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the EPA can regulate carbon emissions. The ruling addressed three questions:
April 2, 2007 -
A Facing South analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2005 toxic release inventory data for states across the region offers some good news and some bad news: While air pollution emitted by the region's industrial facilities declined slightly from the previous year, the amount of pollution dumped into surface wa
March 30, 2007 -
An Orleans Parish judge has vowed to make good on his promise to begin releasing alleged criminals from New Orleans jails -- and he also announced that he would no longer appoint the local public defender program to represent such defendants, calling it a "mockery" of what such a program should be.
March 28, 2007 -
New Orleans' public housing residents will get their day in court.
March 27, 2007 -
Alternative fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel are popular stump speech material for politicians in the rural South and Midwest. It's good for farmers who grow the crops used to make bio-fuels, and everyone agrees anything that reduces our dependence on foreign oil and also provides beneficial side-effects for the environment can't be all bad.
