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As Georgia-Pacific continues to fight environmental groups and the state Department of Environmental Protection over the waste that it dumps into Florida’s rivers and streams, the paper company may be headed for similarly-heated battles elsewhere.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is the latest GOP candidate to come under fire for a campaign ad against illegal immigration. The ad features men and women climbing through a hole in a chain-link fence, set to arguments that Vitter’s opponent, Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon, wants to welcome undocumented immigrants into More…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is protesting a federal court’s decision to allow foreign governments to file “friend-of-the-court” briefs in the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will hear the case in November, ruled Monday that Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, More…
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said today she stands by her hold on President Obama’s nominee for White House Office of Management and Budget director because the administration has yet to overturn its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is calling on BP to extend the deadline to apply for relief under a $100 million compensation fund for rig workers who have lost their jobs under the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The Associated Press reported this week that fewer than 400 people have More…
It may be too soon to draw comparisons between the Vermilion 380 oil rig explosion and the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion. The Associated Press has a helpful breakdown of the differences.
This post is the first in an occasional blog series in which we hear from real Gulf coast residents on how the oil spill impacts their lives.
Elodia Blanco, a life-long Louisiana resident, watched her television yesterday in disbelief.
The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) leading opponent Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) by double digits in the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.
In the four months since the Gulf oil spill, Jacob Brown’s life has fallen apart. (TWI has changed Brown and the other claimants’ names at their request, due to fear of reprisals for their speaking out.) In May, he lost his job as an oil drilling engineer in Louisiana after More…
This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.
Two weeks before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ mayor, Mitch Landrieu (D), just three months into his tenure, More…
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