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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Gulf Watch: Poison politics in New Orleans

How safe is New Orleans? Environmentalists say it's a toxic nightmare; officials say there's no problem.

Over at Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, the Institute's spin-off project investigating the post-hurricane South, Watch reporter Sue Sturgis has a new piece sorting through the evidence, and comes to an interesting conclusion.

Go read the whole piece here.
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