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A newly constructed fence bearing a "no trespassing" sign stands in front of Sandy Pouncey's storm shelter. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Public Funding Gave This Alabama Woman Shelter From the Storm. Then Her Neighbor Fenced Her Out

By Lee Hedgepeth
Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth
Tree trunks in Bavaria stored for further processing in a sawmill, taken during an excursion along the value chain of a wood pellet.

Alabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won’t Cut CO2

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com
A water tower in Prichard, Alabama, a majority Black town with a crumbling water infrastructure. Mobile’s nearby skyline is visible in the background. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention

By Lee Hedgepeth
A coal ash pond (center) located near the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River (foreground) at Alabama Power's Plant Miller (background) in western Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others

By Lee Hedgepeth
A mural of Malcolm X stands in Prichard, Alabama, near the offices of Prichard Water. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town

By Lee Hedgepeth
Parrot Heads crowd Mobile's streets to celebrate the life of Jimmy Buffett. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

Protecting Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett, Bama and the Fight to Save the Manatee

By Lee Hedgepeth
A tree grows in Birmingham, one of dozens planted in the East Thomas neighborhood before the World Games in 2022. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News.

A Tree Grows in Birmingham

By Lee Hedgepeth
The Birmingham XPress, the city's bus rapid transit line, opened last fall with the help of federal funding. The first bus route to break free of the city's old hub-and-spoke transit design, it quickly became Birmingham's most-used public transit option. Credit: Marianne Lavelle/Inside Climate News.

Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding

By Marianne Lavelle
In 2018, a smokestack on the site of then-ERP Coke, within the EPA's 35th Avenue Superfund site in north Birmingham, Alabama. The facility was sold in 2019 to the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, and is now called Bluestone Coke. The facility temporarily ceased operations in 2021, but still owes the Jefferson County Health Department almost $300,000 in fines and penalties for air pollution violations. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism

By Vernon Loeb
A visitor carries an American flag at the Viola Liuzzo memorial on the side of U.S. Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama, in March 2015. Viola Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is Sanitation a Civil Right?

By Dennis Pillion, AL.com
Employees from a Radian Generation change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels Dec. 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Rural Electric Co-ops in Alabama Remain Way Behind the Solar Curve

By James Bruggers

In Three Predominantly Black North Birmingham Neighborhoods, Residents Live Inside an Environmental ‘Nightmare’

By Julia Benbrook, Augusta Saraiva

When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy

By Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, and Dennis Pillion, AL.com

Former Auburn football head coach Tommy Tuberville (left) is running against Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) to represent Alabama in the Senate. Credit: Kevin C. Cox/WireImage; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Senate 2020: In Alabama, Two Very Different Views on Climate Change Give Voters a Clear Choice

By James Bruggers
Credit: John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images

Alabama Public Service Commission Upholds and Increases 'Sun Tax' on Solar Power Users

By James Bruggers
U.S. 280 in Birmingham, Alabama. Credit: Sam Pickett/Birmingham Watch

Despite Pledges, Birmingham Lags on Efficiency, Renewables, Sustainability

By SAM PRICKETT, BIRMINGHAMWATCH

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