As you recall, BP was responsible for a tiny little oil spill in 2010 called the Deepwater Horizon disaster. This only crushed tourism to New Orleans for several months, made people afraid to eat Gulf Coast seafood, and reminded Americans for weeks of their reliance...
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You might think corn-based ethanol is the worst possible "green energy" alternative. And I'd like to think you are right. After all, turning the entire Midwest into a giant corn.
On January 8, 1811, the largest armed slave uprising in U.S. history took place. The German Coast Uprising in Louisiana had up to 500 participants marching to New Orleans to.
Were one to want to work a job where your life and safety are consistently in danger and where you can live with the constant threat of pollution, one could do far worse than heading to Louisiana for a job in the state's many oil...
On October 10, 1917, the red light district of New Orleans, known as Storyville, closed due to the efforts of reformers seeking to eliminate vice from the city. During the.
1. More on climate change destroying the ocean ecosystem and the rise of jellyfish as our new overlords. 2. Support for fracking declines in the United States. This is useful.
Louisiana Republicans are projecting just a wee bit too much here. According to a Public Policy Polling survey, 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans say President Obama is more to blame for the botched executive branch response to Hurricane Katrina while just 28 percent blamed George...
The state of Louisiana (and the voters themselves) have cut off funding for the last operating ferry in New Orleans. Big deal, right? Who takes the ferry anymore? The answer.
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in.
When you let a mining company do whatever it wants with limited regulations, it turns out that horrible things can happen, like gigantic sinkholes that destroy people's homes and make large amounts of land unlivable. What's hilarious is Bobby Jindal's fake outrage and demands that...
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case.
Having never actually been to a museum dedicated to the Confederacy before, I had to go to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum in New Orleans while attending the American Historical.