BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — GASP is announcing the departure of Executive Director Michael Hansen, who is moving on to pursue new opportunities after 10 years of employment with the clean air nonprofit. Hansen has been the Executive Director of the organization since October 2015, after two and a half...
Clean Air Journal
Our Brains, Air Pollution and Hurricanes
After a morning of protesting Governor Ivey’s inaction on the contaminated 35th Ave Site in North Birmingham, we sped down I-65 towards home. As we drove, we talked about how well the protest had...
Meet Madison Cumby, Fall Legal Intern (Samford)
Madison got her B.S. degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in Policy from Samford University in 2018. She’s now a third-year student at Cumberland School of Law.
Love Thy Neighbor: Building Grassroots Power the Old-Fashioned Way
In early 2019, I joined with about 15 other climate activists in a series of meetings to study nonviolent direct action and movement theories of change with the goal of building a new approach to...
Meet Erin Rhodes, Fall Intern
Erin has moved to Birmingham for the semester to volunteer with Gasp as an Environmental Justice Intern through Wheaton College's Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) program. Welcome to...
Groups Ask PSC to Reconsider Alabama Power’s Unprecedented Fossil Fuel Expansion
Gasp and Energy Alabama have formally asked the Alabama Public Service Commission to reconsider its June decision to approve the single largest capacity increase ever proposed by Alabama Power,...
PSC Sides with Alabama Power, Increases Solar Charge
Today the Public Service Commission dismissed our challenge of Alabama Power’s discriminatory solar charge and, unbelievably, approved an increase.