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Dennis Pillion

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Alabama reporter for Inside Climate News. Previously at AL.com. Also previously well rested.

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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In 1999, I saw a local pop-punk band in Birmingham that changed my life. Here's my tribute to them after their final show, 27 years later. dennispillion.substack.com/p/life-witho...
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A farewell to Pain, Alabama's late-90s pop-punk sensation
Pain - my favorite pop-punk, ska-adjacent band from Tuscaloosa - reunited as Salvo 20 years after breaking up.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Trump Lashes Out at National Academies of Sciences Over Climate Guide For Judges" by @dennispillion.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/2007202...
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Trump Lashes Out at National Academies of Sciences Over Climate Guide For Judges - Inside Climate News
Trump claimed without evidence that the manual was “fraudulent, biased, and misleading.”
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump's EPA wants to approve the same Alabama coal ash program the agency rejected under Biden. The move could leave 117 million tons of ash slurry covered in place along Alabama rivers indefinitely. insideclimatenews.org/news/1407202...
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Trump EPA Moves to Approve Alabama Coal Ash Program Rejected by Biden Administration - Inside Climate News
This proposal could allow Alabama Power and other utilities’ coal ash ponds to remain saturated in groundwater indefinitely.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Birmingham Northern Beltline is now expected to cost $6.19 billion and result in the destruction of large swaths of forest and wetland. Critics say the road is too expensive, too environmentally destructive and not needed. insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...
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Alabama Seeks Permit to Fill Wetlands, Streams for Controversial Highway Project - Inside Climate News
The state now estimates that the Birmingham Northern Beltline project will cost $6.19 billion.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Alabama has never had a Black Public Service Commissioner. That’s about to change. insideclimatenews.org/news/1706202...
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Alabama Governor Names Four New PSC Members, Including Its First Two Black Appointees - Inside Climate News
Gov. Kay Ivey announced the appointments as a first step under new legislation expanding the state’s utilities regulator from three to seven seats in 2027.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A Massive Volunteer Network in Florida Works to Save Endangered Sea Turtles insideclimatenews.org/news/1306202...
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A Massive Volunteer Network in Florida Works to Save Endangered Sea Turtles - Inside Climate News
Bowser, a 172-pound loggerhead sea turtle, was rescued from the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier Sunday. The operation was one of a growing number of rescues in areas where sea turtles and humans overlap.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The TVA has been handing out a booklet about coal ash that seriously downplays the human health risks of exposure. Researchers I talked to said the booklet was “deceptive,” “misleading,” and “plain wrong.” insideclimatenews.org/news/1505202...
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The Tennessee Valley Authority Produced a Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks. Top Researchers Call it ‘Dishonest.’  - Inside Climate News
A 35-page booklet distributed in a public meeting by the Tennessee Valley Authority about coal ash is filled with “lies” and misleading information, according to coal ash researchers.   The booklet, t...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Alabama Legislature seems determined to pass… something to address rising electricity costs. But what will they pass and will it work? Here are some of the options being considered. insideclimatenews.org/news/1203202...
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Alabama Poised to Drastically Overhaul Utility Regulation. Will It Lower Electric Bills? - Inside Climate News
The Alabama Senate unanimously voted to expand the public service commission, and create a Secretary of Energy to address rising electricity prices. A bill in the House would go even further, requirin...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 14/02/2026
Inject this straight into my veins. Great article, @dennispillion.bsky.social
The DOE report, titled “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate,” which critics have called “antiscience” and a “scientific felony,” was published last July. It has been widely criticized since its publication as misleading and cherry-picked. Last month, a federal judge ruled that the Energy Department violated the law when it formed its Climate Working Group. “It’s a real testament to how mad people were about the report,” Dessler said. “I mean, they were mad because the report was so shoddy and violated all of the norms of science. In fact, violating the norms of science is the only way you can produce a report like that.”
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New from me: The EPA excluded a controversial climate report from its rule repealing the endangerment finding yesterday after widespread scientific criticism and a judge's ruling that the panel that made the report had been commissioned illegally. insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...
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Trump Administration Dropped Controversial Climate Report From Its Decision to Rescind EPA Endangerment Finding - Inside Climate News
The final EPA rule explicitly omitted the report commissioned last year to justify revoking the endangerment finding, citing “concerns raised by some commenters.”
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
New from me: Alabama’s civil rights history is inescapable, even in places most people wouldn’t expect. Their electric bills, for example. insideclimatenews.org/news/2612202...
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How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates - Inside Climate News
After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power.
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Dan Gearino @dangearino.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This deep look at the consumer unfriendly actions of Alabama Power is very much worth your time. Great work from my colleagues @dennispillion.bsky.social and @leehedgepeth.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
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How Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out to Become One of the Most Powerful Utilities in the Country - Inside Climate News
In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My latest for @insideclimatenews.org goes inside one of the most biodiverse and ecologically important places in Alabama -- the newly dedicated E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve. insideclimatenews.org/news/1910202...
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Alabama’s E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve Is a ‘Place That Time Forgot’ - Inside Climate News
Dubbed the father of biodiversity, the pioneering author and scientist E.O. Wilson spent his early years exploring the swamps and wetlands of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Now, 8,000 acres of that land wil...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New from me: Wilsonville (Ala.) residents hope to shut down a huge proposed data center in their small town on the Coosa River. insideclimatenews.org/news/2008202...
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Alabama Town’s Residents Seek Preemptive Strike Against Massive Data Center Project - Inside Climate News
“That’s going to be their legacy, to potentially destroy a small town,” said one resident of the landowner and developers of a proposed hyperscale data center.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Alabama Power Gets Approval to Buy $622 Million Natural Gas Plant, Expecting More Data Centers insideclimatenews.org/news/0508202...
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Alabama Power Gets Approval to Buy $622 Million Natural Gas Plant, Expecting More Data Centers - Inside Climate News
In the past five years, Alabama Power has added around 3,400 MW of natural gas generation to its fleet of more than 14,000 MW.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Climate scientists @michaelemann.bsky.social, @andrewdessler.com and others respond to this week's DOE climate report, which they called 'antiscientific,' 'deceptive,' and 'cherry-picked.' insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...
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Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report insideclimatenews.org/news/3007202...
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Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims insideclimatenews.org/news/2907202...
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Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims - Inside Climate News
Coosa Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Power, alleging significant groundwater pollution violations from the utility’s Gadsden coal ash pond that has been capped in place since 2018...
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
My colleague @dennispillion.bsky.social and I were the first reporters to sit down at length with Cynthia Almond, the new president of the Public Service Commission. The image she projects is much different than that of her predecessor, Twinkle Cavanaugh: insideclimatenews.org/news/2107202...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New Alabama PSC President Cynthia Almond has won praise from both sides of the aisle, and projects a very different image from her predecessor Twinkle Cavanaugh. @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and I sat down with Almond in her first interview in her new post. insideclimatenews.org/news/2107202...
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Alabama’s New Utility Commission President Wants to Hear From ‘All Sides’ as She Assumes New Role - Inside Climate News
Cynthia Lee Almond spent four years in the Alabama Legislature and 16 years on the Tuscaloosa City Council before being appointed president of the state’s Public Service Commission.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 25/06/2025
Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Alabama environmental regulators have agreed to update standards used to limit the amounts of 12 toxic and carcinogenic substances in the state’s waterways.
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Alabama environmental groups secure rare win in fight to update water toxicity standards | Alabama Reflector
The decision was a rare win for environmental groups operating in the deep-red state, from a board that rarely votes against the department’s recommendations.
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
One of the biggest frustrations I have is the lack of transparency around AI's energy use and environmental impacts. I know the numbers are out there... but somehow we're not seeing them 🫠 Thank you @wired.com for covering this topic in such depth and detail ! www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Canceled Climate Grants Would Have Cut Pollution While Boosting Production, Jobs at Two Alabama Ironworks insideclimatenews.org/news/0606202...
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Canceled Climate Grants Would Have Cut Pollution While Boosting Production, Jobs at Two Alabama Ironworks - Inside Climate News
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Two iron pipe manufacturers in Alabama learned last week they lost a combined $150 million in promised federal funding that would have increased productivity and employment while slas...
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 23/05/2025
Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social & @dennispillion.bsky.social: Coosa Riverkeeper has filed a notice of intent to sue Alabama Power over groundwater pollution from a coal ash pond near the old Gadsden Steam Plant site, based on groundwater testing results Alabama Power must post twice per year.
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Alabama Power threatened with lawsuit for contaminating groundwater with coal ash | Alabama Reflector
Coosa Riverkeeper has filed a formal notice of intent to sue Alabama Power over the groundwater pollution from a pond near the site of the Gadsden Steam Plant.
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Kiley Bense @kiley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Without Pope Francis, “the world is a little lonelier and more unjust.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...
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‘The Earth Loses a Defender’: Pope Francis Fought for the Poor and the Planet - Inside Climate News
A leader on climate action, Francis will be remembered as an ally to Indigenous, poor and working people.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
In 2023, Biden promised to fix sewage woes that have plagued Alabama's Black Belt for decades. Today, the Trump administration 'terminated' the agreement that was supposed to do that. insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...
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Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities - Inside Climate News
The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewa...
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 01/04/2025
Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Any weather forecast made available via broadcast news, a commercial app or other media is almost certainly derived from data and model computations made by the National Weather Service using weather balloons.
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NOAA cuts weather balloon launches due to staff shortages after DOGE layoffs • Alabama Reflector
Weather forecasts in media are almost certainly derived from data and model computations made by the National Weather Service using weather balloons.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Some of the world's oldest weather and climate knowledge comes from weather balloons. This is another egregious attack on science, IMO ... Great reporting by @dennispillion.bsky.social
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NOAA Cuts Weather Balloon Launches Due to Staff Shortages After DOGE Layoffs - Inside Climate News
The president-elect of the American Meteorological Society compares the situation to bolts in a steel office building, warning: “Nobody can say how many bolts you can leave out or remove before the st...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“I think they need a publicist." Alabama's most famous meteorologist James Spann @spann.bsky.social on the National Weather Service's importance to local forecasting and severe weather preparedness. insideclimatenews.org/news/1803202...
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Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service - Inside Climate News
Meteorologist James Spann appeals to his 1.3 million Facebook followers to support the agency, threatened by Trump cuts, that produces the data he relies upon for his forecasts.
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Marianne Lavelle @mlavelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
From Birmingham to San Francisco, Raleigh to New York, and even Vienna where EU scientists showed solidarity, @lizagross.bsky.social @dennispillion.bsky.social @bberwyn.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org colleagues captured Stand Up For Science! insideclimatenews.org/news/0703202...
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Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda - Inside Climate News
Scientists turned out at rallies from coast to coast and in Europe to “Stand Up for Science,” revitalizing a movement to defend scientific integrity that started during Trump’s first term.
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Tristan Baurick @tristanbaurick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Musk's DOGE group deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on its “wall of receipts” list after media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 24/02/2025
Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump.
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Federal funding restored for low-income Alabama utility assistance after outcry • Alabama Reflector
ADECA did not respond to multiple requests for more information or answer whether it had received guidance from the federal government to reinstate the program.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Updating my previous story, Alabama officials now say these grants to help low-income residents pay their electric bills have been reinstated. The grants were halted two weeks ago to comply with a Trump executive order. insideclimatenews.org/news/2102202...
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Federal Funding Restored for Low-Income Alabama Utility Assistance After Outcry - Inside Climate News
A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump.  The Alabama Department of Econ...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
About 2,000 Alabama households were set to receive assistance and many of those had already seen the credits hit their account. Now they’ll have to pay it back on their next bill. insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...
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Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills - Inside Climate News
Many of the 2,000 Alabama households impacted had already seen the funds credited to their accounts and will have to pay the money back on their next bill.
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Lisa Sorg @lisasorg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“They wake up every day, and it’s worse than the day before.” Environmental Justice Staffers at EPA Face Uncertain Future as Potential Layoffs Loom By my colleague Aman Azhar @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0602202...
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‘It’s Worse Every Day’: Environmental Justice Staffers at EPA Face Uncertain Future as Potential Layoffs Loom - Inside Climate News
Former EPA regional administrators worry the actions will unravel decades of work protecting public health from pollution.
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters. 

Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
On a personal note, it's devastating to watch things you built with blood, sweat, and tears be dismantled before your eyes. But that's why we need to keep fighting. insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
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‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives - Inside Climate News
Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affecte...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
New from me: DOT orders sweeping purge of all climate, DEI, gender, environmental justice initiatives. insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
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‘Breathtakingly Ignorant and Dangerous’: Trump’s DOT Orders Sweeping Purge of Climate, Gender, Race, Environmental Justice Initiatives - Inside Climate News
Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affecte...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For this story, I got to spend some time at Flagg Mountain, an underrated gem in central Alabama. The southernmost Appalachian peak is home to a 397 yo longleaf pine tree and the start of the "'Bama to Baxter" trek that connects Alabama to Maine. insideclimatenews.org/news/2601202...
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Preserving Alabama’s Flagg Mountain, the Southernmost Appalachian Peak - Inside Climate News
One of the state’s few remaining old-growth longleaf pine forests, Flagg Mountain connects to the famous Appalachian Trail. A diverse coalition of state and nonprofit organizations are working to pres...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Incredible opportunity @insideclimatenews.org has given us to boost environmental coverage in Alabama. We'll try to make the most of it.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Wow! A *public* interest group in Alabama was denied (twice) a motion to intervene in an Alabama *Public* Service Commission proceeding, and has now filed a complaint against the PSC in court. Great reporting from @dennispillion.bsky.social!
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Fight Over Alabama Electricity Fuel Costs Heads to Court - Inside Climate News
Energy Alabama is challenging the position of the Alabama Public Service Commission that adjusting the rate customers pay Alabama Power for fuel costs does not constitute a “proceeding” of the commiss...
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 13/12/2024
Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org Energy Alabama, a clean energy advocacy organization, has filed an appeal with a Montgomery court after the PSC twice rejected its motions to intervene in the docket that determines how much Alabama Power customers pay for fuel.
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Fight over Alabama electricity fuel costs heads to court • Alabama Reflector
Advocates are turning to the courts to get access to fuel cost negotiations between the Alabama Public Service Commission and the state’s largest electricity provider.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
PSA: Just in case it comes up over the holidays, those anti-renewable energy rants from your parents' new favorite show are just as fictional as... well, the rest of that show. www.newsweek.com/fact-check-t...
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Fact Check: Taylor Sheridan's "Landman" is a hit, but its writing misleads
The hit show from "Yellowstone" writer Taylor Sheridan shares misleading and false claims about renewable energy, Newsweek found.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
After nine months of @insideclimatenews.org reporting on a fatal home explosion atop a coal mine in Alabama, federal regulators have put their state counterparts on notice to force the coal company at issue to mitigate the risks of methane escaping from their operations.
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Federal Regulators Say An Alabama Coal Mine’s Plans May Violate Law, Leaving Citizens At Risk - Inside Climate News
A “ten-day notice” issued to Alabama officials aims to mitigate risks to citizens living above Oak Grove Mine. It comes after months of state inaction and community outrage.
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James Bruggers @jbruggers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I worked with CBSNews and Tracy Wholf to shed light on a Houston plastics recycling that wasn't actually recycling plastic. Now, an at-large Houston City Council member is taking a stand and asking questions. insideclimatenews.org/news/1312202...
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In Houston, a City Council Member Questions ‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic and a City Collaboration with ExxonMobil - Inside Climate News
Councilmember Letitia Plummer said pyrolysis perpetuates fossil fuel extraction and pollution. Her conclusion: The most effective way to reduce plastic waste is to limit its production in the first pl...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The Alabama Public Service Commission says changing fuel rates on customers' electric bills doesn't amount to a "proceeding" of the commission, so they don't have to let outside orgs intervene. Environmental groups are challenging that in court. insideclimatenews.org/news/1312202...
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Fight Over Alabama Electricity Fuel Costs Heads to Court - Inside Climate News
Energy Alabama is challenging the position of the Alabama Public Service Commission that adjusting the rate customers pay Alabama Power for fuel costs does not constitute a “proceeding” of the commiss...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New from me: Alabama law grants the public the right to intervene in any proceeding of the Public Service Commission. But the PSC says changing the rate that customers pay for fuel costs does not amount to a “proceeding.”
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Alabama’s Public Service Commission Shuts the Public Out While Setting Utility Fuel Cost Rates - Inside Climate News
Alabama law allows public participation in “any proceeding” before the PSC, but the commission says determining how electricity fuel costs affect consumers’ bills does not constitute a “proceeding.” A...
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Chemical exposure increases if plastic is heated, typically in a microwave, a dishwasher or even by placing hot food in a takeout container.”
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The folks in the Biden DOE's Loan Programs Office are absolute climate heroes, doing all they can to lessen the blow of the next administration. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks
The administration is accelerating the approval of large loans for clean technologies that the president-elect attacked on the campaign trail.
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Dennis Pillion @dennispillion.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Happy December, Bluesky. Here’s a fish that poops out of its neck.
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