Kevin Costner to the Rescue

Kevin Costner (yes, that Kevin Costner) has proposed a nearly $895 million plan to prevent future oil spills.

Times-Picayune Editorial: Don’t Use Vermilion 380 to Extend Moratorium

An editorial in today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune today says calls for an extension of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in light of yesterday’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf are “disingenuous.”

The editorial underscores the continued resistance to the administration’s six-month moratorium in the Gulf, where the oil More…

Workers Rebuilding New Orleans Face Rampant Wage Theft

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.

Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers More…

Who Gets to Rebuild New Orleans?

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…

A Flood of Money Slow to Fix New Orleans Schools

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.

After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the federal government began the most expensive long-term rebuilding project in American history. The More…

The Aftereffects of Katrina on New Orleans

Today at TWI, we started running a series of stories on New Orleans five years after Katrina, trying to investigate some of the overlooked, unexpected consequences of the devastating hurricane. First up is Andrew Restuccia’s investigation of longstanding problems with landfills and trash disposal in the New Orleans flood More…

New Orleans Landfills, Prone to Flooding, Remain Controversial – and Possibly Dangerous – for City Residents

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.

In the late summer of 1965 — almost 40 years to the day before Hurricane Katrina — Betsy, a Category Four More…

Obama Traveling to New Orleans for Five-Year Katrina Anniversary

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

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Gulf Oil Spill Litigation to Be Heard in New Orleans Court

Litigation stemming from the massive Gulf oil spill will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans, a judicial panel decided today.

First Oil Spill Commission Meeting Today

The high-level commission charged with determining the cause of the BP oil spill meets for the first time today in New Orleans.

The commission, which is slated to meet today and tomorrow, is expected to make recommendations on how to proceed with a six-month presidential moratorium on new deepwater drilling More…