Environment
February 26, 2010 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica Former New Orleans Police Department Lt. Michael Lohman pleadedguilty to a single count of conspiring to obstruct justice, inconnection with one of a string of violent encounters between policeand civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Policeshot at least 10 people during the week after the storm made landfall.
February 25, 2010 -
Environmental groups have identified serious water contamination pro
February 18, 2010 -
President Obama's announcement this week that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear
February 17, 2010 -
An Alabama creekkeeper has filed a complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency citing health threats including runoff containing alarmingly high arsenic levels at a bankrupt l
February 16, 2010 -
NOTE: The following contribution comes from Claudia Rowe, a writer with the Equal Voice newspaper of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech.
February 15, 2010 -
Alabama Attorney General Troy King (R) has joined with industrial interests to take TVA's side in the company's appeal of a U.S. District Court decision ordering four TVA plants -- one in Alabama and three in neighboring Tennessee -- to curb their air emissions.
