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AL.com journeys through some of the 7,990 acres purchased for conservation in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta earlier this year.
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Alabama reporter for @insideclimate. Past: Environmental reporter for @aldotcom. Opinions mine, etc.
Dennis Pillion’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridAlabama Wood Pellet Mill Seeks Millions in Climate Funds, but Critics Say It Won't Cut CO2 - Insi...
Inside Climate News
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Opponents say pellet mills will harm Alabama communities already burdened by industrial air and water pollution, and are worse for the climate than burning coal.
Plastic-grabbing fungi could help keep microplastics, PFAS out of rivers and oceans
AL.com
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Early studies show fungi may be effective at removing man-made toxins from rivers and oceans.
Chandler Mountain saved: 'My daddy and my pawpaw are smiling from heaven'
AL.com
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"I was told by so many people that there was just no point, that you couldn't fight Alabama Power, that they were too powerful," said Fran Summerlin, one of the key organizers. "But I was determined. I knew that you couldn't just roll over and die."
Alabama Black Belt becomes federal test case: Is sanitation a civil right?
AL.com
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"This is the first time the federal government has done this, which is significant," said Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the Office of Human Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services. "And this is not the last."
What Alabama got wrong when battling the Moody landfill fire
AL.com
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State and local authorities faced uncertainty and confusion over who was in charge of putting out an underground landfill fire that burned for three months.
White House pledges to solve Alabama's Black Belt sewage woes
AL.com
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack say Joe Biden personally instructed them to address wastewater and sewage treatment problems in Alabama's Black Belt.
Poultry waste, sewage sludge from other states flowing into rural Alabama
AL.com
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Multiple out of state companies are sending tons of poultry and sewage wastes to Alabama to be used as fertilizer.
Ancient Alabama journeys through 500 million years of the state's history
AL.com
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If you think Pink Floyd is old, how can you possibly imagine a time 500 million years ago?
'I'm sorry, but it's too late': Alabama doctor tells unvaccinated, dying COVID patients
AL.com
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"And now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, 'Okay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,' when I leave the room, I just see a person that's really suffering, and that is so regretful for the choice that they made."
Fighting microplastics: There's some seriously gross stuff in my laundry
AL.com
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Call me old fashioned, but I generally prefer my bodies of water to be more actual water and less man-made gunk.
Crabs fell on Alabama: The new seafood shacks taking over the state
AL.com
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“The [king crab] fishery seems to be continually going downhill, and I think that’s another response to global warming,” said Bradley Stevens, a professor of Marine and Environmental Science at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Do tornadoes strike the same place twice? Researchers say it's 'random chance'
AL.com
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"If you throw enough darts at the board, some are going to end up close to each other, just by random chance," said Harold Brooks, a senior research scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Oklahoma.
How Alabama scientist became Trump's go-to on climate
AL.com
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A contrarian and outsider in the climate community, he provided the credentials that bolstered the administration's roll back of environmental protections.
New homes in Huntsville being built over possible 1500-year-old Native American burial sites
AL.com
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Archaeologists report finding significant numbers of artifacts dating to around 500 AD on the site where a new subdivision is being built in Huntsville.
The world's largest plastics recycler is in... Alabama?
AL.com
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Alabama is home to the largest plastics recycling facility in the world, but still struggles to reach national average recycling rates.
Montgomery bet $31 million on 'magic garbage machine'
AL.com
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Montgomery has reopened its recycling center, which pulls recyclables from household garbage, after a four-year hiatus.
'One in a million' yellow cardinal spotted in Alabama
AL.com
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Auburn University researcher says the cardinal is yellow due to an extremely rare genetic mutation.