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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Give and Lake Fast-growing Atlanta loses rights to major source of drinking water		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 06 Feb 2008 An 18-year water war between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida has come to an end of sorts: A federal appellate court has voided an Army Corps of Engineers agreement that would have given Georgia the rights to nearly 25 percent of federal reservoir Lake Lanier as a source of drinking water for metro Atlanta. Alabama and Florida had sued over the plan, saying it would siphon off water t ...
Topics: Alabama, Army Corps of Engineers, Florida, Georgia, news, placemaking, urban planning, water conflicts (all these topics)

Coal bed methane drilling: Not just a western issue Alabama's Bankhead forest next?	Erik Hoffner	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alabama, coal, energy, mining (all these topics)

To Sir, with Exasperation On writing to reps about climate change	Umbra Fisk	02 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I want to send a letter to my local representatives about global warming and how our whole city and state should take part in stopping it, but I don't know what to say or how to approach this. Please help! Hillary Schwartz Birmingham, Ala. Dearest Hillary, Hmm, I can think of a few things to say. But you might get escorted out of Alabama if you put them in a letter. Post haste. Photo: iStock ...
Topics: advice, Alabama, Ask Umbra, climate, politics (all these topics)

Finger-Lickin' Bad How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South	Suzi Parker	21 Feb 2006	Main Dish
A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who live near the structures -- stuffed with as many as 25,000 chickens each -- combat the odor and health hazards daily. Not yer pappy's chi ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, air pollution, Alabama, Arkansas, environmental justice, health, Oklahoma, Poverty and the Environment, state politics (all these topics)

Sour Home Alabama Budget Cuts Could Mean Lax Enforcement at Alabama's Landfills		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Sour Home Alabama Budget Cuts Could Mean Lax Enforcement at Alabama's Landfills Proposed budget cuts to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management could spell the end of virtually all landfill and medical-waste facility inspections, state officials say. The state plans to cut $1.3 million of the $5 million it normally contributes to the department's budget; the remainder of the $46 millio ...
Topics: Alabama, solid waste treatment and disposal, state politics (all these topics)

Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Sweeter Home Alabama Alabama PCB Suits End in $700 Million Settlement Monsanto Co. and its spin-off enterprise, Solutia, agreed yesterday to pay $700 million to settle state and federal lawsuits concerning five decades of PCB pollution in Anniston, Ala. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Monsanto (and later Solutia) used a plant in Anniston to produce PCBs, which are now banned in the U.S. because they are associate ...
Topics: Alabama, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Keeping the Chemical Fires Burning Army Begins Burning Chemical Weapons in Alabama		11 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Keeping the Chemical Fires Burning Army Begins Burning Chemical Weapons in Alabama To the dismay of environmentalists and many community members in Anniston, Ala., the U.S. Army on Saturday started incinerating millions of pounds of chemical weapons stored at an army depot in town, a process expected to take seven years. A federal judge cleared the way on Friday when he ruled that environmental and civil-rights groups had faile ...
Topics: Alabama, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mass Destruction of Weapons Chemical Weapons Incineration in Anniston, Ala., Delayed Just as local residents were scrambling for gas masks, the U.S. Army announced yesterday that it would delay startup of a controversial chemical-weapons incinerator in Anniston, Ala., until Friday, when a federal judge can consider an environmental group's request for a temporary restraining order against the facility. ...
Topics: air pollution, Alabama, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Turtle Wane		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Wane Having depleted their own nation's once-plentiful turtle populations, Chinese buyers are now offering top dollar for turtles from the southern U.S. In the last three years, there's been a dramatic upswing in the number of turtles exported to China, where the animals' meat is considered a delicacy and their shells are ground up to make virility powders. In 2002, ...
Topics: Alabama, China, marine life, Mississippi, North Carolina, South, South Carolina (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Sweet Home, Alabama		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Home, Alabama A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama is failing to adequately enforce water-pollution laws, thereby paving the way for citizens of the state to sue under the national Clean Water Act. Under the terms of that act, citizens may go to court to enforce the law only if the state has failed to prosecute polluters and only after filing 60-day notice of ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Us Against DEM		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Us Against DEM A coalition of environmental and health advocacy groups in Alabama wants to reform the state's Department of Environmental Management -- starting with its name. Saying the agency is too concerned with management and insufficiently concerned with protection, the coalition called yesterday for a new "Department of Environmental Protection" characterized by a different leadership structure, stricter enforcement ...
Topics: Alabama, state politics (all these topics)

Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Nuclear Power As Fossil Fuel The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power producer, decided yesterday to restart a troubled nuclear reactor at its Browns Ferry plant in northern Alabama. The reactor has been out of use since 1985, when all three of the plant's reactors were shut down after engineers discovered that the reactors did not match their blueprints. Two of the three reactors were res ...
Topics: Alabama, energy, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Solutia-ns		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

White Trash Turns Green		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Alabama, education, Florida, Georgia, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

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