In his speech from New Orleans yesterday, President Obama signaled a redoubling of Washington's commitment the devastated Gulf. But whatever the president does, he faces deep racial divisions and the reigning anti-Washington ethos of Gulf politicians. More...
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AUGUST 2010 | On the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new Institute report finds that while community action has flourished in the wake of the storm, the President and Congress have yet to fix key problems in disaster and recovery policy -- undermining Gulf rebuilding and putting lives at risk from future disasters. More...
A coalition of more than 100 organizations has drawn up a blueprint for creating new jobs in spill-affected communities by building a more environmentally sustainable economy, with funding for the plan to come for the oil and gas industry. More...
After Katrina, New Orleans police officers circulated orders authorizing them to shoot looters and "take back the city," but it remains unclear who issued them. More...
Kenneth Feinberg has taken over as the paymaster for the Gulf oil spill, and has promised new rules to speed the process. More...
Responding to demands from state officials, BP finally announced this week that it would spend $52 million on mental health services in the Gulf region affected by the oil spill disaster. But considering the damage done, is it enough? More...
Environmental and community groups across the Gulf Coast raise concerns that regulators are basing their safety calculations on flawed assumptions. More...
After the Corps' levee system failed catastrophically in the storm's wake, Congress passed a law requiring that its projects be subject to outside review. Now the agency is trying to skirt that requirement. More...
A group of prominent Georgia ocean scientists says the media have misinterpreted a recent federal report to claim that most of the oil has disappeared. In fact, most of it remains -- and poses a serious threat to the ecosystem. More...
President Obama plans to visit New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Will he make the connection between disaster recovery and human rights? More...
Scheduled to take over claims management from BP on Aug. 23, independent administrator Kenneth Feinberg has pledged to speed up the oil disaster claims process and make it easier for claimants to track their cases. More...
An analysis by a leading environmental justice scholar found that the majority of the Gulf Coast landfills taking waste from the BP oil spill are located in communities of color. A look at what's happening by the numbers. More...
The TV cameras are leaving the Gulf -- which is exactly why we need to be paying attention to what's happening with recovery from BP's oil disaster. More...
Federal officials and seafood industry leaders tout the safety of Gulf Coast seafood in the wake of the BP oil disaster, but not everyone's convinced. More...
Some in the media are writing off the BP disaster as more hype than reality. But scientists say it's too early to downplay the spill's impact -- and even good news, like finding less oil, could point to future imbalances in the ecology of Gulf waters. More...
BP is lagging on deciding the validity of many damage claims, and claimants may have to wait until after the special administrator takes over later this month. More...
Will the long-term impact of the BP oil disaster be as bad as many feared? Or has the oil spill hype overblown the risks? Listen to Facing South's Chris Kromm and Gulf scientists as we discuss the ongoing fallout of the disaster. More...
A measure to reform oversight of offshore drilling and boost royalty payments from oil companies gets only two Republican votes -- and strong opposition from oil state Democrats. More...
After the oil spill, BP moved to hire researchers at Gulf Coast universities under contracts that included bans on freely sharing their findings. But scholars nation-wide are fighting back against what they call an assault on academic freedom. More...
The administrator of BP's $20 billion fund says he will probably not compensate victims for mental health damages to avoid getting "millions of claims from people watching television." More...
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