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.
Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash
By Lee Hedgepeth
Hale Freezes Over
By Lee Hedgepeth
EPA and Alabama Power to Start Settlement Negotiations Over Coal Ash Storage near Mobile
By Lee Hedgepeth
In Alabama, What Does It Take to Shut Down a Surface Mine Operating Without Permits?
By Lee Hedgepeth
An Alabama Landfill Has Repeatedly Violated State Environmental Laws. State Regulators Waited Almost 20 Years to Crack Down
By Lee Hedgepeth
As Financial Turmoil Threatens Plans for an Alabama Wood Pellet Plant, Advocates Question Its Climate and Community Benefits
By Lee Hedgepeth
Q&A: Catherine Coleman Flowers Talks COP28, Rural Alabama, and the Path Toward a ‘Just Transition’
By Lee Hedgepeth
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
Public Funding Gave This Alabama Woman Shelter From the Storm. Then Her Neighbor Fenced Her Out
By Lee Hedgepeth
An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter
By Lee Hedgepeth
As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention
By Lee Hedgepeth
The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others
By Lee Hedgepeth
First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town
By Lee Hedgepeth
Protecting Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett, Bama and the Fight to Save the Manatee
By Lee Hedgepeth
