Environment
July 30, 2008 -
The Times-Picayune reports that repeated changes in rules for the Road Home recovery program have made it more difficult for applicants to collect the same grants they were once promised by the program.
July 29, 2008 -
As the N.C. Public Utilities Commission opened hearings yesterday on Duke Energy's controversial Save-a-Watt energy efficiency proposal, the plan's opponents called on commissioners to remove the conflict of interest inherent in having an investor-owned energy company promote efficiency -- by establishing an independent energy conservation program.
July 28, 2008 -
In states across the South, utility companies are pushing ahead with plans to construct a new kind of nuclear reactor. Designed by Westinghouse Electric Co., the AP1000 is to date but an idea on paper, having never been tested with a demonstration model in the real world.
July 26, 2008 -
The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper patrolled the air yesterday to check on the section of the Mississippi River affected by Wednesday's oil spill.
July 25, 2008 -
New Orleans City Business reports that New Orleans District Attorney Keva Landrum-Johnson is filling up Louisiana's prisons with a new policy charging minor marijuana offenders with felonies if they have prior convictions.
July 24, 2008 -
The massive oil slick from the crash that occurred yesterday on the Mississippi near New Orleans has now spread 100 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
July 24, 2008 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday asked a federal judge to dismiss it from lawsuits filed over the formaldehyde-contaminated trailers provided to families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.