ICN Alabama

As the Alabama Legislature Adjourns, Environmentalists See a Silver Lining

Lawmakers failed to bring back formal public hearings in electric rate cases and constrained state environmental regulators. But citizen opposition helped kill a move to end PSC elections.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama’s Governor Signed a Landmark Utility Regulation Bill Into Law. Many Say It’s a Win For Alabama Power.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Judge Rules Alabama Power Can Keep Its Solar Fee, Among the Nation’s Highest

By Dennis Pillion

Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse,’ Resident Says

By Lee Hedgepeth

Alabama Poised to Drastically Overhaul Utility Regulation. Will It Lower Electric Bills?

By Dennis Pillion

‘Sound Science’ Bills Limiting State Environmental Regulations Set ‘Insurmountable Burden of Proof,’ Scientists Say

By Dennis Pillion

Citing National Security, Trump Has Abandoned Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Ovens

By Lee Hedgepeth

Trump’s Choice to Be Alabama’s Next Senator Finds an Odd Political Target: the Modern Gas Can

By Lee Hedgepeth

‘Relief from the Nightmare’: Alabama Judge Halts Operations at a Quarry Residents Say Is Ruining Their Community

By Dennis Pillion

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

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates

By Dennis Pillion

A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State

By Lisa Sorg

Alabama Regulators Approve Two-Year Electric Rate Freeze and Two Solar Projects for a Meta Inc. Data Center

By Dennis Pillion

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry

By Dennis Pillion