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Road hogs

NASCAR and the high-octane American dream 11
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago A tour of America's energy landscape would be woefully incomplete without a visit to a NASCAR race, so Amanda Little trekked to the Talladega Superspeedway to get a first-hand view of the action. Don't miss this third installment in our series of exclusive excerpts from Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Renewable Future.
ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Study details health risks from TVA’s spilled coal ash 0
Posted 3 months ago
Exposure to dust and river sediment in the area of the massive coal ash spill from the TVA's Kingston power plant could present a health risk to local communities, found a new study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
It's sprawl over?

Alabama city backing away from destruction of ancient Indian mound? 2
Posted 3 months ago
Following local protests and international outcry, the city of Oxford, Ala. appears to be backing away from plans to destroy an ancient and archaeologically significant Indian mound.
Sprawling Over the Past

Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club 4
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.
alabama's ashhole?

Decision to dump TVA’s spilled coal waste in Alabama community sparks resistance 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The EPA approved a plan last week to dump 3 million tons of coal ash that spilled from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in eastern Tennessee in an impoverished, largely African-American community in Alabama.
You'll be sorry, Ms. Jackson

Rural county asks EPA chief not to make it ‘The Ash Hole of Alabama’ 2
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The residents of Perry County in central Alabama are none too excited about the prospect of their home becoming "The New Ash Hole of Alabama."
Hot potato

Pennsylvania rejected TVA coal ash that’s going to poor communities in Alabama and Georgia 2
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Some of the more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash that spilled from an impoundment at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee last December is making its way to landfills in poor and black communities in Alabama and Georgia, as we reported last week at Facing South.

It turns out that TVA also looked into sending the waste to Pennsylvania for dumping into abandoned mines -- but that state's Department of Environmental Protection rejected the ash as substandard.
Notable Quotable

Building green in Birmingham 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s it going to take to enact proactive energy and environmental policy? 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Give and Lake

Fast-growing Atlanta loses rights to major source of drinking water 0
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
Alabama’s Bankhead forest next? 2
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
To Sir, with Exasperation

Umbra on writing to reps about climate change 7
Posted 3 years, 3 months ago
Finger-Lickin' Bad

How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South 4
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
Sour Home Alabama 0
Posted 6 years, 2 months ago
Sweeter Home Alabama 1
Posted 6 years, 3 months ago
Keeping the Chemical Fires Burning 0
Posted 6 years, 3 months ago
Mass Destruction of Weapons 0
Posted 6 years, 3 months ago
Turtle Wane

Turtle Wane 0
Posted 6 years, 6 months ago
Flexing Their Mussels 0
Posted 6 years, 8 months ago
Sweet Home, Alabama 0
Posted 6 years, 10 months ago