Environment
October 5, 2005 -
Darryl Malek-Wiley, a long-term New Orleans-based organizer with the Sierra Club (which down there works closely with labor and community groups), sends me this excellent platform for Gulf Coast reconstruction from his new base in Baton Rouge:
October 4, 2005 -
Posted by R. Neal Since the first day of his administration, Bush has wanted to open up the Gulf Coast for offshore oil and natural gas drilling. And since the first day of his administration he has been at odds with his brother Jeb, the Governor of Florida, who doesn't want offshore drilling in his back yard.
October 4, 2005 -
Posted by R. Neal As part of the great Rural Electrification of the 1930s under FDR, the Tennessee Valley Authority was founded to control flooding, generate power, and improve the lives and welfare of the people in the valley.
October 4, 2005 -
Tuesday's Washington Post:
October 4, 2005 -
Georgia cancelled school for two days last week, ostensibly to "save energy," and Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal Constitution (and one of my favorite columnists) doesn't think it's a very good idea:
October 3, 2005 -
If you haven't read it yet, definitely check out the piece by New Orleans architect Anthony Fontenot and author/scholar Mike Davis (who wrote this prescient article last year), penned after spending a week in New Orleans talking to locals, officials and surveying the hurricane aftermath.
October 3, 2005 -
The Bush Administration has been eager to expand offshore oil drilling for a while now. And according to today's LA Times, they've found the perfect pretext in Hurricane Katrina: