Environment

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 31, 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.

January 24, 2006 - Posted by R. Neal Housing isn't the only crisis in New Orleans. Health care is turning into a medical emergency:

January 24, 2006 - Posted by R. Neal

January 23, 2006 - Not so well, says the New York Times:

January 23, 2006 - Tim Shorrock, reporter for the Institute's Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project, will be on Houston's Pacifica station 90.1 FM at 5:30 pm today.