ICN Alabama

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

Critics say the rate freeze will only delay financial burdens on Alabama Power customers while preserving a high profit rate for the utility.

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion

An Alabama City Council Approves Rezoning for a Massive Data Center, Dividing a Community

By Lee Hedgepeth

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

A Proposed Alabama Data Center Faces New Hurdles: A ‘Road to Nowhere’ and the Birmingham Darter

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion

How Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out to Become One of the Most Powerful Utilities in the Country

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth

In a ‘Disheartening’ Era, the Nation’s Former Top Mining Regulator Speaks Out

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama’s E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve Is a ‘Place That Time Forgot’

By Dennis Pillion

Despite Stiff Opposition, an Alabama City Changes Its Laws to Accommodate Data Centers

By Lanier Isom

Eighteen Months After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Rolls Back Its Commitment to Monitor Explosive Gases Above Coal Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

As Opposition to an Alabama Medical Waste Treatment Facility Boils Over, a  Mysterious Facebook Page Weighs In

By Lee Hedgepeth

Children of the Storm

By Lee Hedgepeth

Colombia’s President Called Out an Alabama Company’s Coal Exports to Israel. Now Alabamians Are Protesting

By Lee Hedgepeth

Amid Community Opposition, Alabama Hyperscale Data Center Project Hits a Speed Bump

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama Town’s Residents Seek Preemptive Strike Against Massive Data Center Project

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Power Gets Approval to Buy $622 Million Natural Gas Plant, Expecting More Data Centers

By Dennis Pillion

Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Research Center Works to Understand ‘One of the Last Great Wild Places’

By Lanier Isom