Dennis Pillion
Reporter, Alabama
Dennis Pillion is a reporter for Inside Climate News based in Alabama. He joined ICN in 2024 after 17 years working for Alabama Media Group, including nine as the statewide natural resources reporter. His work for AL.com and The Birmingham News, won numerous Green Eyeshade and Alabama Press Association awards for his coverage of environmental issues in Alabama. He was born and lives in Birmingham, Ala.
Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda
By Liza Gross, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg
Federal Funding Restored for Low-Income Alabama Utility Assistance After Outcry
By Dennis Pillion
Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills
By Dennis Pillion
‘America at War With Itself’: Humanitarian, Climate Aid Becomes Flashpoint in a Battle for Control of U.S. Government
By Dennis Pillion
‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives
By Dennis Pillion
Preserving Alabama’s Flagg Mountain, the Southernmost Appalachian Peak
By Dennis Pillion
Fight Over Alabama Electricity Fuel Costs Heads to Court
By Dennis Pillion
Alabama’s Public Service Commission Shuts the Public Out While Setting Utility Fuel Cost Rates
By Dennis Pillion
Aspiring Applicants Worry EPA Environmental Justice Grant Funding Will Be Rescinded Before It’s Awarded
By Kristoffer Tigue, Dennis Pillion, Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle
Who Pays for Alabama’s $5 Billion ‘Zombie’ Highway Project? Not Alabama
By Dennis Pillion
Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s Election, New Climate Champions Set to Enter Congress
By Wyatt Myskow, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
Critics Say Alabama’s $5 Billion Highway Project Is a ‘Road to Nowhere,’ but the State Is Pushing Forward
By Dennis Pillion
Alabama Coal Plant Tops US Greenhouse Gas Polluter List for 9th Straight Year
By Dennis Pillion
A Year After Historic Civil Rights Settlement, Alabama Slowly Bringing Sanitation Equity to Rural Black Communities
By Dennis Pillion
EPA Settles Some Alabama Coal Ash Violations, but Larger Questions Linger
By Dennis Pillion
Alabama Environmental Group, Fishermen Seek to End ‘Federal Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay
By Dennis Pillion