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...
Alabama PSC to Hold Hearing on Solar Fee
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Michael Hansen
Michael is Executive Director of GASP. He joined the team in 2013 as communications specialist. He has years of experience and extensive training in the areas of public health and environmental protection. He is a member of the board of directors for the Southeast Climate & Energy Network and Clean Water Fund, as well as a member of the Arm in Arm National Core Support Team. Email Michael
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...
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...
Flawed Consent Decree Fails Local Communities Impacted by ABC Coke’s Illegal Pollution
Conservation groups are charging that a proposed consent decree is woefully inadequate in addressing the impacts of ABC Coke’s excessive and illegal levels of toxic pollution on local communities around northeast Birmingham and Tarrant, Ala.
‘What’s Up With that Sherman Concrete Plant?’
Here are some of the answers to the most common questions we have been getting about the propose concrete plant relocation to Five Points West.
Groups Sue Trump’s EPA for Coke Oven Cancer Pollution
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 15, 2019) — Today Earthjustice on behalf of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, GASP, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Sierra Club, sued the Environmental Protection Agency...
