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Dr. Cornel West attends the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on Sept. 17, 2023, ahead of the Climate Ambition Summit. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Dr. Cornel West Is Running to Become President of the United States. What Are His Views on Climate Change and the Environment?

By Lee Hedgepeth

This December 2022 photo shows smoke and open flames at the landfill site near Moody, Alabama. In the time since, the fire has continued to burn underground. Credit: Courtesy of Moody Fire Department

Will the Moody Landfill Fire Ever Be Extinguished? The EPA Isn’t So Sure.

By Lee Hedgepeth

A cropped still from a video of the Madison County landfill fire posted to Facebook by the New Market Volunteer Fire Department on Aug. 23, 2023.

A Publicly-Owned Landfill in Alabama Caught Fire and Smoldered for 50 Days. Nearby Residents Were Left in the Dark

By Lee Hedgepeth

Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

Workers at the Hale County Courthouse in Greensboro, Alabama, have found themselves facing a choice: work in uncomfortable conditions or use personal time to avoid chilly inside temperatures. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Hale Freezes Over

By Lee Hedgepeth

An unlined coal ash pond in western Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage near Mobile

By Lee Hedgepeth

The sun sets over an unpermitted surface mining operation in Winston County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Ashberry Landfill in Opp, Alabama. “There are mountains of uncovered tires at the facility,” a nearby resident complained in 2019, according to a record of the complaint. “The mosquito issue has been so bad that residents are having to stay indoors more.” Credit: Alabama Department of Environmental Management

An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down

By Lee Hedgepeth

A prescribed burn for longleaf pines on Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle. Military bases have some of the largest contiguous tracts of longleaf pines. Credit: Alexis Feysa/The Longleaf Alliance

Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities

By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com

Wood chips are stored for pellet production at a sawmill. Credit: Angelika Warmuth/picture alliance via Getty Images

As Financial Turmoil Threatens Plans for an Alabama Wood Pellet Plant, Advocates Question Its Climate and Community Benefits

By Lee Hedgepeth

Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020 and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2023. Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’

By Lee Hedgepeth

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy participates in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on December 6. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Vivek Ramaswamy Called ‘the Climate Change Agenda’ a Hoax in Alabama’s First-Ever Presidential Debate. What Did University of Alabama Students Think?

By Lee Hedgepeth

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

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