Green-Washing FRI 10/16/09 6:05pm

THIS WEEK: Months before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and ripped away its protective levees, one Louisiana State University professor sounded the warning that the levees were inadequate and ready to collapse. He blamed the problem on the off shore drilled of Chevron for undermining the coastline. Now, that professor and all of his colleagues at the hurricane study center were fired and the center was closed. A few weeks later, a new center for the study of wetlands was opened…with a majority of the funding coming from Chevron. Investigative reporter Greg Palast [1]tells this story of “green-washing.”