
Lee Hedgepeth
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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6 days ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Marianne Lavelle |Lee Hedgepeth
Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for what could be an Earth Day onslaught. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing various executive orders on environmental issues, possibly to be announced on Tuesday, to coincide with Earth Day.
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1 week ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Lee Hedgepeth
SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves. Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of the Shiloh Community in south Alabama, has led more politicians and environmental leaders on neighborhood tours than he can count.
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1 week 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. TUSCALOOSA — When Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited two Warrior Met coal mines in central Alabama last week, he said he was emphasizing the administration’s commitment to “clean, beautiful coal” and its plans to roll back regulation.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Lee Hedgepeth
Warrior Met has a checkered safety history, according to federal records. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News)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.
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1 week ago |
insideclimatenews.org | Lee Hedgepeth
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—When Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited two Warrior Met coal mines in central Alabama last week, he said he was emphasizing the administration’s commitment to “clean, beautiful coal” and its plans to roll back regulation.
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The agreement had forced Alabama to begin facing the sewage crisis in the state's Black Belt, an issue that disproportionately impacted Black Alabamians. Full story: https://t.co/jTl4VGACEr https://t.co/5rJ8yEacEj

The delay comes a year after an Alabama grandfather was killed from a methane explosion in his home atop Oak Grove mine in western Jefferson County. Full story from @insideclimate: https://t.co/3FzHKTXXVw https://t.co/KnKwobFM3B

A proposed development in Homewood is threatening a population of salamanders that have lived at the base of Shades Mountain for generations. Full story from @insideclimate: https://t.co/o0QI4D7ene https://t.co/pjQBPQSPlz