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The remnants of a fatal home explosion above the Oak Grove mine in March 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office

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

By Lee Hedgepeth
The site of the proposed Bessemer data center is currently a nearly 700-acre wooded plot. Construction would require the clearcutting of more than 100 acres. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

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

By Lee Hedgepeth
Dozens of residents filled the Blount County Commission's boardroom well over capacity on Thursday to oppose the approval of a medical waste treatment facility in Remlap, Alabama. Community members lined the halls outside the meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

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

By Lee Hedgepeth
An aerial view of Bayou La Batre. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Children of the Storm

By Lee Hedgepeth
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro attends the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Lee Hedgepeth
Residents dress in red to show their opposition to the proposed data center hold signs that read “Vote NO on the proposed data center in Bessemer.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

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

By Lee Hedgepeth
Local residents pack the Wilsonville City Council meeting on Monday to express opposition to a proposed data center project. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

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

By Dennis Pillion
The Alabama Public Service Commission gathers for a meeting on Tuesday, where the commissioners approved Alabama Power’s request to buy the Lindsay Hill Generating Station for $622 million. Credit: Courtesy of Alabama Public Service Commission

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

By Dennis Pillion
The covered coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden sits adjacent to the Coosa River in Gadsden, Ala. Credit: Courtesy of Coosa Riverkeeper

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

By Dennis Pillion
The Paint Rock Forest Research Center’s Nathan Paris and Gabriel Sullivan-Brugger rope off a census block to map tree locations in the Alabama valley. Credit: Beth Maynor Finch

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

By Lanier Isom
Bessemer residents attend a City Council meeting on July 15 to express opposition to a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom
Former state legislator and Tuscaloosa city councilor Cynthia Almond is the newly appointed president of the Alabama Public Service Commission, the state’s top utility regulator. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama’s New Utility Commission President Wants to Hear From ‘All Sides’ as She Assumes New Role

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth
The Rock Mountain Lakes community (foreground) is located adjacent to the proposed data center site (background) in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’

By Lee Hedgepeth
An aerial view of Dauphin Island’s shoreline and marsh mounds in Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Can Shoreline Restoration Rein in Rising Flood Insurance Prices?

By Sydney Cromwell, Southern Science
Pastor Timothy Williams has led the charge for change in the Shiloh Community he calls home. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Black Alabamians Sue State Department of Transportation Over Repeated Flooding

By Lee Hedgepeth
A view of Warrior Met’s Coal Mine No. 5 in Brookwood, Ala. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

In Trump’s Megabill, a Clean Energy Phase Out and a Big, Beautiful Tax Break for Met Coal Exporters

By Lee Hedgepeth, Marianne Lavelle
An aerial view of the Cahaba River as it flows through central Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards

By Dennis Pillion
Brad Kaaber, a representative of the proposed data center developer, speaks to zoning commissioners during a Tuesday meeting in a room of residents opposed to the project. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

By Lee Hedgepeth

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