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November 17, 2005
There is a man living in my driveway now and I don't find that at all unusual...
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November 17, 2005
At the breach in the levee at the 17th Street Canal we saw the path of a high-velocity flood, the upended cars, the destroyed and shifted houses...
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November 14, 2005
They gave us a cram course in legislation racing through congress to undo much of the enviro law that had accumulated over decades...
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November 7, 2005
The quality of life we enjoy is based on a distribution system that lasts only for a couple days, and during times of emergency just hours...
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October 21, 2005
It continues to astound me how our government agencies are primarily interested in doing P.R. to downplay or disregard the impacts of pollution...
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October 31, 2005
I just read an article about shipping containers dumping meat into Gulfport neighborhoods...
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October 25, 2005
...This was catalyzed by Sierra Club President Lisa Renstrom's visit to New Orleans...
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October 21, 2005
In 22 years of swimming here, I have never seen the water so clear...
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October 21, 2005
I had a bad feeling about Wilma even before Katrina hit -- just one of those women's intuition things...
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October 21, 2005
Million-dollar homes with floodwater lines 4- to 6-feet-high. It is a weird feeling to stand next to that line on the house and imagine being here a month ago. The grass of the golf course is dry and brown....
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October 14, 2005
I had concerns that the Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal was dominated by white males...
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October 14, 2005
When I first took notice of Katrina, she was a dinky, unorganized low pressure system...
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October 13, 2005
My house nearly burned down this week...
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October 12, 2005
People are heading back in to New Orleans, in spite of concerns about toxic chemicals, bacteria, and fuel oil in the sludge...
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October 10, 2005
...the pattern of making the Gulf Coast a sacrifice zone for industry with high toxic emissions continues...
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October 10, 2005
Here in Galveston we're living in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita...
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October 5, 2005
"Why would we want this additional law, which will make Louisiana less protected?"...
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October 5, 2005
MRE's (meals ready to eat) aren't half bad. The main complaint I've found so far is that there aren't enough vegetarian ones...
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October 5, 2005
Thousands of tons of waste were washed into coastal waters when the Hurricane Katrina storm surge retreated...
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October 5, 2005
I had a weird sensation today as I walked through the devastated neighborhoods in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi...
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October 5, 2005
It really is hard to lose a house that they lived in over half their lives. That house has been with me since I was eight...
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October 5, 2005
A guy I met in Pass Christian on the Mississippi coast has only ventured from his home two or three times since the storm hit...
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October 5, 2005
Last Saturday night the DuPont DeLisle chemical plant was burning its trash, even though there was a burn ban on...
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October 4, 2005
You would never guess how difficult it is to give away $25,000 to Katrina victims in North Gulfport...
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October 4, 2005
So here it is 18 days later and I am trying to go home to my apartment. I do not know what I will find...
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September 29, 2005
I was "lucky". I stayed at my home on Davis Bayou in Ocean Springs, Miss., for Hurricane Katrina. Like many thousand others, I questioned the wisdom of that when the Gulf of Mexico decided to come into my living room...
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September 26, 2005
I watched CNN as the hurricane headed towards the Gulf Coast, worried for my family and friends living there.
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September 26, 2005
...I was numb and I sat down on the seawall and just felt nothing at all. I did not know what this would mean to me, to my clients, to my family, or to my community. It was a vast helplessness.
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September 21, 2005
My home is directly across the bay from the DuPont DeLisle facility. Katrina destroyed my home so I am currently in Maryland. I have toured the DuPont plant and seen the waste pits.
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September 20, 2005
In the dark hours as the Coast was learning the devastating toll of Katrina, there was one structure that stood out -- The Biloxi Lighthouse, one of the few buildings on the beach that survived.
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