April 11, 2011 -
When BP's Deepwater Horizon rig catastrophically failed nearly a year ago, it unleashed a gusher of wall-to-wall media coverage -- and promises from politicians of reform.
April 7, 2011 -
We've been saying at News Taco how Texas has become the face of the new America, where Latinos have grown in numbers and influence, where most of the kids in public schools are Latino, where, as demographer
April 7, 2011 -
Number of men killed a year ago this week in an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.: 29
April 6, 2011 -
A coalition of public-interest groups filed a legal challenge today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to halt the fast-track approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor that utilities are planning to build across the South.
April 6, 2011 -
It's official: The South's Latino communities are the fastest-growing in the country. On March 24, the final batch of 2010 Census data was released, and the results were striking: The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic rose 43 percent over the past decade, accounting for 56 percent of the nation's total population increase -- a rate of growth far beyond earlier Census projections.
April 5, 2011 -
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering dramatically increasing the allowable level of radioactive contamination in water, food and soil after radiological incidents such as spills or "dirty bomb" attacks.