ICN Alabama

America’s Largest Producer of Foundry Coke Is Operating Under an Expired Permit. Who Is at Fault?

County health officials told lawyers for an environmental group they would move forward with the permitting process after a legal filing asked a judge to force the agency’s hand.

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Alabama Legislature Was on a Collision Course With Alabama Power. Then Came Spring Break.

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth

How Alabama Power Escaped a Push for Tighter Regulation With Record Profits Intact

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth

An Overdue Trash Bill Left This Alabama Woman in Handcuffs. She’s Not Alone.

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Grid Has Eyes

By Lee Hedgepeth

‘Unbearable’ Heat in Uncooled Alabama Prisons

By Lee Hedgepeth

Proposed Data Centers Could Use More Electricity Than All Alabama Homes Combined, Analysis Shows. Who Will Pay?

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama Seeks to Lower Gas Utility Profits for the First Time in 40 Years

By Dennis Pillion

Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands

By Lisa Sorg

Will Congress Ban ‘Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay?

By Dennis Pillion

Trump EPA Moves to Approve Alabama Coal Ash Program Rejected by Biden Administration

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Data Center Non-Disclosure Agreement Required City Officials to Destroy Records, Document Shows

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama Seeks Permit to Fill Wetlands, Streams for Controversial Highway Project

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Limestone Quarry Settles Lawsuit Over Dust, Noise

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees

By Dennis Pillion

On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

By Lee Hedgepeth

In Alabama Primary Elections, Incumbent Utility Regulators Feel the Squeeze of High Energy Prices

By Lee Hedgepeth

In the Wake of Georgia’s Blue Wave, Alabama Changed Its Utility Regulation Elections. This Black Democrat Is Suing. 

By Lee Hedgepeth