Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
By Alison Lynch and Krista Yacovone Interns, Disaster Accountability Project (Alison graduated Mt. Holyoke College in 2010 and will start law school this Fall) (Krista is a rising 2L at Fordham University School of Law in New York City) While the effects of the nation’s most devastating environmental disaster will be felt for years to […]
By Maryann Palazzolo Intern, Disaster Accountability Project (Maryann attends Warren Wilson College, Environmental Studies Major, Class of 2011) The procession of missteps and catastrophes that led up to, and have followed from, the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform on April 22 reveal that the companies involved – BP, Transocean, and Halliburton – were […]
By Maryann Palazzolo Intern, Disaster Accountability Project (Maryann attends Warren Wilson College, Environmental Studies Major, Class of 2011) Hurricane season has arrived and Louisiana’s state and local governments want to make sure that they are ready. Mark Cooper, Director of the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, has noted that since Hurricane […]
The American Society of International Law (ASIL), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, held a meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C., to discuss the human rights implications of climate change, a slow-moving global disaster, and the need for new international laws to address gaps in current law. The event was covered by the organization Clean Skies, which published […]
On June 16 the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing: “New Orleans Hurricane and Flood Protection and Coastal Louisiana Restoration: Status and Progress,†which summarized updates on the New Orleans levees and discussed plans to rebuild. Chairman Boxer and the rest of the Committee were adamant that it would be “tragic if we choose the wrong […]
The goal of the Safe Homes For All Leadership Forum was to bring together professionals from across the spectrum to discuss different strategies for hurricane risk mitigation for low-income households. While nearly all of the strategies discussed and recommendations made were broadly applicable to the overall population in hurricane and flood-prone areas, the most eye-opening […]
“The federal firefighting system is “imploding” in California, due to poor spending decisions and high job vacancy rates,” according to Casey Judd, of the Federal Wildland Fire Service Association, in an interview with The Herald, a Monterey County, California newspaper. As a result of the problems, “small fires have exploded into extended, multimillion-dollar conflagrations,” writes […]
Yesterday, the Washington Post timidly reported that floods in Iowa and other Midwestern states may not be “natural” disasters . However, scientists have long warned that worsening floods are the predictable result of human intervention – of floodplains covered with impermeable concrete and stripped of vegetation; of river channels forced up and out of their […]
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