The new rules require more public disclosure on data center projects but still allow large projects to be approved without a vote.

Pain - my favorite pop-punk, ska-adjacent band from Tuscaloosa - reunited as Salvo 20 years after breaking up.

Trump claimed without evidence that the manual was “fraudulent, biased, and misleading.”

This proposal could allow Alabama Power and other utilities’ coal ash ponds to remain saturated in groundwater indefinitely.

The state now estimates that the Birmingham Northern Beltline project will cost $6.19 billion.

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.

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.

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...

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...

The final EPA rule explicitly omitted the report commissioned last year to justify revoking the endangerment finding, citing “concerns raised by some commenters.”

After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power.

In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators.

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...

“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.

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.

Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...

Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

A leader on climate action, Francis will be remembered as an ally to Indigenous, poor and working people.

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...

Weather forecasts in media are almost certainly derived from data and model computations made by the National Weather Service using weather balloons.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Former EPA regional administrators worry the actions will unravel decades of work protecting public health from pollution.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The hit show from "Yellowstone" writer Taylor Sheridan shares misleading and false claims about renewable energy, Newsweek found.

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.

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...

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...