Lee Hedgepeth
Reporter, Alabama
Lee Hedgepeth is Inside Climate News’ Alabama reporter. Raised in Grand Bay, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast, Lee holds master’s degrees in community journalism and political development from the University of Alabama and Tulane University. Lee is the founder of Tread, a newsletter of Southern journalism, and has also worked for news outlets across Alabama, including CBS 42, Alabama Political Reporter and the Anniston Star. His reporting has focused on issues impacting members of marginalized groups, including homelessness, poverty, and the death penalty. His award-winning journalism has appeared in publications across the country and has been cited by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, among others.
A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response
By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth, Lisa Sorg
This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project. Now It May Host a Hyperscale Data Center.
By Lee Hedgepeth
An Alabama Mayor Signed an NDA With a Data Center Developer. Read It Here.
By Lee Hedgepeth
Bessemer Data Center Developer to Request Rezoning for Additional 900 Acres
By Lee Hedgepeth
After Losing a Climate Case in a Louisiana Courtroom, Chevron Wants a Change of Venue
By Lee Hedgepeth
What Top Climate Scientists Think of Trump’s Treaty Withdrawals
By Lee Hedgepeth
How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk
By Lee Hedgepeth
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
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
Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?
ICN Sunday Morning
As Opposition to an Alabama Medical Waste Treatment Facility Boils Over, a Mysterious Facebook Page Weighs In
By Lee Hedgepeth
