A community group in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest organization to take issue with the Obama administration’s rosy assessment of the status of the Gulf oil spill cleanup.
President Obama is going to New Orleans Aug. 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, according to the White House.
The White House:
The visit will include remarks by the President at Xavier University of Louisiana. Members of the President’s Cabinet who have worked to speed recovery and
A test case for climate change litigation was dismissed by a federal appeals court on Friday in a little-noticed afternoon ruling, leaving the door open for a Supreme Court appeal by plaintiffs who aim to link major industrial emitters with the environmental consequences of the greenhouse gases they produce.
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No one who wasn’t employed by Donald Rumsfeld would ever argue that he wasn’t the worst secretary of defense since Robert McNamara, but Robert Draper mines the depths of Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon in GQ and emerges with new disgraces. Watch Rumsfeld cynically present Bush with briefings on More…
Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit:
Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us.
Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts.
The Republican National Committee has sent out the full text of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s response to the presidential speech. It’s embargoed for now, but, spoiler alert: the governor uses Hurricane Katrina of an example of why Americans can’t trust government to save them.
President George W. Bush is saying that the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav is far better than the response to Katrina in 2005. The president canceled his plans to attend the Republican National Convention today in order to fly to Texas and oversee emergency response efforts to Gustav. More…
At the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Americans are talking about the number of lessons to be learned from the tragedy of that storm and the failure of response by the U.S. government that followed.
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