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Koch Industries plant linked to cancer epidemic in Arkansas community (video)

Crossposted from Facing South. A new video from Brave New Films is drawing attention to an unusual number of cancer cases and other serious health problems in an Arkansas community next to an...

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Alabama faces civil rights complaint over landfill taking waste from TVA coal...

Crossposted from Facing South. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management faces a civil rights complaint for permitting a landfill to take coal ash spilled three years ago in the Tennessee...

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Has the Gulf oil disaster fallen off America's radar?

Crossposted from Facing South. For residents of the Gulf Coast, the BP oil spill is an ongoing disaster that's still causing serious health problems, environmental damage and economic hardship in one...

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Time of trials for BP?

Crossposted from Facing South. Date on which the Gulf oil spill trial is scheduled to begin in New Orleans unless a settlement is reached: 2/27/2012Percent chance that BP will settle with the federal...

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BP funds Gulf research, but not the boats needed to conduct it

Crossposted from Facing South. In the wake of its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP pledged up to $500 million over a decade to create an independent program to conduct scientific research at...

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New Mississippi Law Boosts Local Hiring in Disaster's Wake

Crossposted from Facing South. Following Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, Gulf Coast community leaders raised concerns about the failure to prioritize hiring local residents for recovery jobs --...

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Poll documents ongoing emotional harm from BP oil disaster

Crossposted from Facing South.  Two years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Coast residents continue to suffer emotional fallout from the disaster.That's the conclusion of a new survey...

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Protesting BP's Olympic greenwash

Crossposted from Facing South. Number of people arrested last week following a protest at the Olympic Clock in London's Trafalgar Square, where activists posing as representatives of BP and other...

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Feds slam BP for gross negligence as oil washes up on storm-wracked Gulf beaches

Crossposted from Facing South. With weathered oil believed to be from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster washing up across the Gulf in the wake of Hurricane Isaac and leading to the emergency closure of...

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For Controversial Fracking Researcher, A Disclosure Lesson Unlearned?

Crossposted from Facing South -  A professor who left the University of Texas at Austin following a scandal over his failure to disclose his oil and gas industry connections is now heading up a...

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