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Lee Hedgepeth

Birmingham

Reporter, Alabama at Inside Climate News

Alabama reporter for @insideclimate. I write @treadbylee, a newsletter of Southern journalism. Sign up below.

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  • 4 days ago | alabamareflector.com | Lee Hedgepeth

    This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BESSEMER — When a representative for a hotly contested development began to speak inside City Hall here Tuesday evening, the lights went out.

  • 4 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Lee Hedgepeth

    This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BESSEMER — When a representative for a hotly contested development began to speak inside City Hall here Tuesday evening, the lights went out.

  • 6 days ago | timesfreepress.com | Lee Hedgepeth

    BESSEMER, Ala. — When a representative for a hotly contested development began to speak inside City Hall here Tuesday evening, the lights went out. A packed room of zoning commissioners and upset residents groaned, already on edge from the issue at hand: consideration of a proposal to construct a massive data center in a rural Birmingham suburb.

  • 1 week ago | insideclimatenews.org | Lee Hedgepeth

    BESSEMER, Ala.—When a representative for a hotly contested development began to speak inside City Hall here Tuesday evening, the lights went out. A packed room of zoning commissioners and upset residents groaned, already on edge from the issue at hand: consideration of a proposal to construct a massive data center in a rural Birmingham suburb.

  • 1 week ago | alabamareflector.com | Lee Hedgepeth |Lanier Isom

    This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BESSEMER — A newly identified species of fish in central Alabama is already endangered due to human development, experts say. Now, plans to build a massive hyperscale data center could turn an already dire situation into an extinction event.

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19 Jun 25

RT @BWRiverkeeper: An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers - ⁦@insid…

Lee Hedgepeth
Lee Hedgepeth @lee_hedgepeth
18 Jun 25

When a hotly contested developer calls your work "misinformation," you may be onto something. https://t.co/pYAq5BNgUp

Lee Hedgepeth
Lee Hedgepeth @lee_hedgepeth
18 Jun 25

RT @MrRJNKNS: This becomes increasingly insane the further down it you read. Some of these numbers are staggering.