News Round-Up: September 12, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: West Virginia Gas Drilling Opponents Call For Halt To...
View ArticleWe object: Why BP’s $8.7 billion deal is “a failed settlement”
The last couple of weeks have brought a lot of news – both good and bad – down here to the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Isaac was a double whammy; the storm itself destroyed homes and upended people’s lives,...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 13, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Anti-Fracking Groups Organize Nationwide Rallies BP...
View ArticleNow, BP claims it wants to clean up Gulf — but not until it spends more on PR
You've got to say this about British Petroleum -- they have some nerve. For more than two years, we've been reporting about all the lingering fallout from the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the sick and...
View ArticleLouisiana DEQ bungles a toxic nightmare from Hurricane Isaac
In recent months, I've joined with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and others in calling for the state's Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to be stripped of its powers and for the federal...
View ArticleA temporary reprieve from Shell’s risky and reckless Arctic drilling scheme
For the last couple of weeks, we've been consumed with the never-ending fallout from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Some 29 months after the explosion that killed 11 people and spewed 5 million...
View ArticleNews Round-Up: September 21, 2012
A selection of today’s headlines and must-read articles on issues ranging from fracking and the BP oil spill to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster: Faculty Fights Fracking Sampling Continues at Bayou...
View ArticleTorn on the bayou: Sinkhole keeps getting bigger, more dangerous
A lot has happened over the last few weeks. In the political world, the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sees a new kerfuffle every few hours. Down here in Louisiana, we've been...
View ArticleThe sinkhole keeps getting bigger, and so do the lies of Texas Brine Co.
The crisis involving the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Louisiana just doesn't stop. In what's becoming an almost daily headline, the sinkhole grew again, swallowing up more trees and even part of an access...
View ArticleNew Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution
Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the...
View ArticleJapan’s nuclear whack-a-mole alarms the world
I just wanted to offer a quick update on the latest news out of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, where the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing atomic accident just keeps...
View ArticleThe salty, radioactive gunk that Big Fracking doesn’t want you to know about
The big oil companies love to portray the rise of fracking as a great American success story -- using 21st Century technology and know-how to locate and extract pockets of cheap energy that were...
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Crude Justice — the story of a lifetime fighting Big Oil, and winning
The story of my new book -- Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America -- begins with a phone call. Sometimes one call can...
View ArticleKeystone XL and an ‘outrageous abuse of the law’: My interview with Tavis Smiley
Last week, it was my honor to fly to Los Angeles to sit down for an interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley for his nationwide late night show, to discuss my new book Crude Justice: How I Fought Big Oil and...
View ArticleNew disclosure lifts lid on government cover-up of radioactive pollution in Ohio
A surprise admission by a top federal administrator is raising some shocking new questions about how much that kids going to a nearby middle school and neighbors of a southern Ohio uranium-processing...
View ArticleRadiation fears rock southern Ohio: ‘If you have half a thyroid, you’re doing...
First came the shock and the anger that the federal government had known about radioactive pollution at a middle school attended by their children and told no one for two years. But now the residents...
View ArticleThe new book that says everything you know about radiation is wrong
The recent release and popularity of the HBO series Chernobyl reminded its several million viewers — regular folks — of something that many experts have been worried about for decades: That the...
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