Environment

December 18, 2006 - A coalition of public health and environmental groups filed suit last week against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to toughen the national standard for particulate matter pollution to a level that could prevent thousands of premature deaths every year.

December 18, 2006 - It's not only the federal government that's let down the people of New Orleans.

December 16, 2006 - I spent yesterday meeting with community groups in Mississippi, including the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance and MS Worker's Center for Human Rights.

December 14, 2006 - Executive Director Chris Kromm hasn't donned a Santa outfit and stood outside your local Wal-Mart ringing a bell (yet) because he is down in New Orleans getting the latest first-hand reports on the recovery effort.

December 14, 2006 - A scientist at a Charleston conference about the effects of global warming and rising sea levels on coastal communities said:

December 13, 2006 - The people of storm-ravaged New Orleans lost some of their sway over federal hurricane reconstruction efforts this week when House Democrats removed recently re-elected Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from his seat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.

December 13, 2006 - We are back in New Orleans, meeting with community leaders to get a "ground level" view on how the recovery is going in the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. These visits always remind me why it's so important that we build our own independent media, and why we can never let up in working for progressive change, from the ground up.