Community still struggles for say in oil spill recovery
By Nayita Wilson The Louisiana Weekly Contributing Writer One year after the disaster, nonprofit leaders representing environmental agencies that have been actively involved in the BP oil spill clean-up and recovery processes ... Scientists need funds to continue spill-related research
By Susan Buchanan The Louisiana Weekly, Contributing Writer Last summer, biologists and chemists whipped through Gulf waters in rented fishing boats and sloshed around in local marshes with nets and vials, collecting ... Speculators are driving pain at the gas pump
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson (Special from New America Media) - In February, the news headlines blared, "Gasoline pump prices hit a 28-month high." The February high has been exceeded in the ...