Ivor van Heerden, LSU settle wrongful termination lawsuit
Van Heerden credits a column by The Lens' Jed Horne with helping to push LSU to settle.
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Too late to save face, but time for LSU to settle van Heerden lawsuit
LSU tried to discredit Ivor van Heerden and then fired him for speaking out about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' failures with the levees in New Orleans. Now the university is fighting his wrongful termination lawsuit.
Eco vs. econo: 11th-hour dispute over plan to spend $20B in BP fines
Up to $6 billion of BP's fines for the oil spill was supposed to be spent on ecosystem recovery. A behind-the-scenes drama unfolded when new guidelines added "economic recovery" to the approved purposes.
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