Environment

February 8, 2006 - Will be light blogging as we get situated in New Orleans. We touched down at noon and have done a quick tour of the 9th Ward, Bywater and other hard-hit communities.

February 7, 2006 - Thanks in large part to the generous support of you, our readers, we're making another fact-finding trip to the Gulf Coast this week, as part of our Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project.

February 1, 2006 - On the same day that Texas oilman George W. Bush declared the country is "addicted to oil," a bi-partisan Florida delegation was gathering to propose a sweeping ban on the offshore oil-drilling heavingly promoted by George and brother Jeb Bush in Florida:

January 30, 2006 - Today's revelations about the grotesque failures of FEMA's response to Katrina weren't necessarily shocking for the information that was brought to light -- but by the fact that nobody seems to care, and no one is being held accountable.

January 26, 2006 - Posted by R. Neal The debate raises several difficult questions:

January 25, 2006 - As more scandals emerge about the federal response to Katrina, the Bush administration is battening down the hatches.

January 25, 2006 - Investigative reporter Tim Shorrock has an update at Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch on the unfolding scandal about why evacuation buses didn't show up until a week after Hurricane Katrina.