Blog Archive
Alabama Power, Alabama PSC Should Protect Consumers During COVID-19
Contact:Daniel Tait, Energy Alabama, [email protected], 256-812-1431Michael Hansen, Gasp, [email protected], 205-746-4666 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 15, 2020) — Gasp and Energy Alabama are calling on Alabama Power to immediately suspend shutoffs and late fees through...
Experts Expose Flaws in Alabama Power’s Billion Dollar Request
This proposal simply doesn’t reflect the world we’re living in and won’t get us to a lower carbon future we urgently need to reach.
Genes, Evolution, and Air Pollution
I believe that the health of each and every one of us is harmed by air pollution. I base this belief on studies that show there is no safe level of pollutants and that adverse health effects are occurring at levels much lower than previously thought. It is hard,...
Protect the First Amendment, Oppose HB36 & SB45
Legal and Policy Updates: February 26, 2020
Air Permits Below are air permits up for public comment across the state. If you are interested in learning more, or getting involved, please email me at [email protected] or call me at 205-701-4272. County* Facility Type of permit Date posted** Lee Creekwood...
Legal Petition: TVA Violating Customers’ Rights by Giving Millions to Dirty Energy Lobbyists
Contact: Howard Crystal, (202) 809-6926, [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Biological Diversity and other organizations petitioned the Tennessee Valley Authority today to stop giving millions of dollars in ratepayer money to...
Legal and Policy Updates: February 14, 2020
Air Permits Below are air permits up for public comment across the state. If you are interested in learning more, or getting involved, please email me at [email protected] or call me at 205-701-4272. County* Facility Type of permit Date posted** Colbert Technocon...
WATCH: ABC 33/40 Reports on Gasp Air Sampling Results
For years, residents have been complaining about air pollution coming from the Bluestone Coke plant in North Birmingham. (Prior to being named Bluestone Coke, it was called ERP Compliant Coke, and before that it was Walter Coke.) The plant heats coal at extremely high...
Legal and Policy Updates: February 7, 2020
Air Permits Below are air permits up for public comment across the state. If you are interested in learning more, or getting involved, please email me at [email protected] or call me at 205-701-4272. County* Facility Type of permit Date posted** Jefferson Big Sky...
Legal and Policy Updates: January 31, 2020
Here are updates about air permits, regulations, state and local policy, and federal legislation that relate to our work!
Alabama Groups File Motion to Intervene in ABC Coke Consent Decree
The groups filed a motion to intervene in ongoing efforts to approve a proposed settlement to address ABC Coke’s illegal emissions of benzene and the impacts on communities around northeast Birmingham and Tarrant, Ala.
The Role of Health Departments in Promoting Environmental Justice
Background If you’ve read anything else on this website, you probably already know about the environmental justice challenges facing Birmingham. Air pollution from industries and factories disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income neighborhoods,...
On March 19, 1970, Dr. Marshall Brewer Gave this Stirring Speech
The modern iteration of GASP celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. We are also celebrating the 50th anniversary of our namesake organization, the Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution, and the signing of the federal Clean Air Act this year. As such, we...
GASP Seeks Five Volunteer Interns for Spring Semester
We’re looking to fill five unpaid internship positions for the 2020 spring semester. The deadline to apply is January 17, 2020.
Scientific Advisory Board Pushes Back on Trump’s EPA Rollbacks
The air we breathe needs to be cleaned up, not allowed to get dirtier.
Assessing Causality of Particulate Matter Pollution on Health
The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) makes recommendations to the EPA administrator regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standards for criteria air pollutants, including particulate matter. This process...
EPA Needs to Base Its Decisions on Science
Marion Fintel retired from Talladega College as an associate professor of biology in July of 2019. During her career, she taught anatomy and physiology, as well as other biology courses, to college students for close to thirty years. Dr. Fintel earned her doctorate...
Alabama PSC to Hold Hearing on Solar Fee
On Thursday, November 21, the Alabama Public Service Commission will hold a hearing requested by Gasp, represented by SELC, and private plaintiffs, represented by Ragsdale, LLC, about Alabama Power’s unnecessary and discriminatory monthly fee on solar power customers...
Why I Fight for Clean Air & How You Can Help
As a boy, I dreaded the Science Fair toward the end of each school year. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t like science — I loved it then as I still do today. It was the competition that gave me anxiety. It wasn’t until I was in Mrs. Weeks 5th Grade class that I finally...
Study: Air Pollution is Deadly
A study recently published in the journal PLOS Medicine confirms what we already know: air pollution is hazardous to human health. Specifically, the authors found that fine particulate matter was responsible for more than 30,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2015, lowering...
