Environment
April 20, 2012 -
An independent audit ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice finds that the Gulf Coast Claims Facility owes more than $64 million in additional payments to individuals and businesses for oil spill damages.
April 19, 2012 -
Two years after BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, a Facing South/Institute report finds coastal communities are struggling to cope and recover -- and to get the nation to pay attention.
April 18, 2012 -
A video-poem by Aimee Suzara marking the two-year anniversary of the ongoing BP oil drilling disaster.
April 17, 2012 -
Faith leaders across the Gulf are calling on Congress to pass a law that would send fines levied against BP for the oil spill back to affected communities.
April 13, 2012 -
Derrick Evans of Mississippi traveled to London this week to deliver an invitation to BP shareholders and officers to visit the Gulf Coast and witness the ongoing impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster for themselves.
April 3, 2012 -
The recent Senate vote to maintain oil company subsidies didn't fall just along party lines -- it also fell along money lines.
April 2, 2012 -
Another forum to let the people weigh in on a proposal to lift the state's ban on the controversial natural-gas drilling technique will take place tonight in Pittsboro, N.C. The hearing was added after large crowds showed up at two earlier forums.
