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.

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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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