Alabama
February 15, 2010 -
Alabama Attorney General Troy King (R) has joined with industrial interests to take TVA's side in the company's appeal of a U.S. District Court decision ordering four TVA plants -- one in Alabama and three in neighboring Tennessee -- to curb their air emissions.
December 2, 2009 -
A new report from Environment America finds that the nation's power plants are dirty as well as old -- and that those two characteristics tend to go hand in hand.
August 4, 2009 -
City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart.
April 16, 2009 -
A federal judge denied the Tennessee Valley Authority's appeal for more time to install pollution controls on coal-fired power plants in Alabama and Tennessee.
May 23, 2008 -
There are some interesting developments in the saga of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, convicted in 2006 of bribery after what appears to have been a politically motivated prosecution.
March 3, 2008 -
An excerpt of a 1981 Southern Exposure interview with civil rights organizer James Orange, who talks about how he got his nickname, the importance of freedom songs to the movement, and his later work with gangs in Chicago. Orange passed in away in February 2008 at age 65.
May 31, 2007 -
That's the question the folks over at Citizens for Tax Justice pondered recently on their Talking Taxes blog.
