John Merrill attacked GASP and Sierra Club for daring to defend every Alabamians’ right to healthy air to breathe and clean water to drink. We respond.
Latest news
Opinion
Help for Coal Impacted Communities: Congress, Don’t Come Home Without It
Help for Coal Impacted Communities: Congress, Don’t Come Home Without It Stephen Stetson Stephen Stetson is Senior Campaign Representative for the Alabama Beyond Campaign of the Sierra Club. Email Stephen Michael Hansen Michael Hansen is the executive director of...
President Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement
Below is a statement from GASP Executive Director Michael Hansen on President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement: "Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement jeopardizes our role in the world as leaders on climate action. Global problems...
Guest Post: Science Education as a Civil Right
Below is the text of a speech given by Kathryn Drago at the “Shelby, show up for science” march April 21. Ms. Drago is a science educator and curriculum developer. She has all but defended her Ph.D. in Science Education from University of Michigan and has M.A. in...
Guest Post: The Importance of Science
Below is the text of a speech given by Dr. Patrick R. LeClair at the "Shelby, show up for science" march April 21. Dr. LeClair is a professor of physics at the University of Alabama. He has a B.S. in Materials Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Eindhoven...
Do Air Pollution Protections Kill Jobs? Not Exactly.
If you're like me, you try to stay as informed as possible about current events, trends, and research. I think it's important to know what's going on and why so I can contribute positively to my community. Recently, there has been a lot of talk about rolling back...
State of the Air Report Shows Citizen Advocacy and Common-Sense Policies Work
The American Lung Association released its annual “State of the Air” report today and it showed that Birmingham has made significant improvements in air quality over recent years. The Birmingham metro area ranked 53rd most polluted for ozone, 22nd most polluted for...
Alabama Still Threatened by Dirty Energy
Almost exactly 17 years ago today, I wrote an essay entitled “Fitzgerald’s Fools: Corruption in The Great Gatsby.” The thesis of that paper was that naivete, greed, and fragile masculinity are the toxic cocktail that destroys the American Dream. Daisy Buchanan’s...
More Than Football: UAB Needs Academic Integrity and Independence
Change is in the Air Dr. Ray Watts, then-senior vice-president and dean of the UAB School of Medicine, established the Clean Air Initiative in 2012. Combining private and public dollars, it was designed to be an interdisciplinary partnership of UAB’s Schools of...
Deadline Nearing for EPA National Priorities List Proposal
The deadline to comment on the Proposed Rule No. 61 is two weeks away. The proposal would add north Birmingham's 35th Avenue Superfund Site to the National Priorities List, an Environmental Protection Agency designation that would allow the federal government to fund...
Get in touch
Our address
4953 Vine Street
San Diego, CA 92465
San Diego, CA 92465
Call Us
815.555.5555
Send us a mail
Sarah Thompson
Business Consultant
815.555.5555