Environment
May 29, 2012 -
The executive director of a housing rights advocacy group serving southwest Alabama, Teresa Bettis recently spoke with Bridge the Gulf and the Institute for Southern Studies about her vision for a more sustainable future for the Gulf Coast.
May 25, 2012 -
There's been a great deal of attention focused on the environmental impacts of natural gas drilling, but the industry also presents serious hazards for workers.
May 24, 2012 -
A report from North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections documents how companies with an interest in legalizing fracking in the state are investing heavily in legislators' campaigns.
May 22, 2012 -
Two years after the BP disaster, the United Houma Nation's outreach coordinator talks about living next to the oil industry and the future she envisions for her tribe and her home.
May 15, 2012 -
The push for the Tar Sands pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast comes with big promises of jobs and energy independence. But community leaders that will be most affected by the project are speaking out about the toxic consequences.
May 11, 2012 -
John Droz of the American Tradition Institute, a fossil fuel-funded advocacy group that works to discredit climate science, was the mastermind of an effort that called for setting up "dummy businesses" to buy anti-wind power billboards and creating a "counter-intelligence branch" to track the industry.
May 10, 2012 -
A Gallup survey finds that a decline in the emotional health of Gulf Coast residents since the 2010 oil spill is "statistically significant and meaningfully large."
