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

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

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