GASP: What is your major at and why did you choose it? Mikayla: I am majoring in art with a minor in marketing and a certificate in sales. I chose to major in art because it has been my lifelong passion. I chose to study sales and marketing because I think it helps me communicate in a business...
Clean Air Journal
Is Indoor CO2 Pollution Hurting Our Brain Function?
Vox, a relatively new, data-driven online media outlet, published an article today with a fascinating headline "The carbon dioxide trapped in your meeting is making you think more slowly" that...
Sign on to Support the Clean Power Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this summer proposed the Clean Power Plan, which would reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants by 30 percent by 2030. These new standards...
Alabama Power to Close Coal Units
Last Friday, Alabama Power announced that it is closing two small coal units at Plant Gorgas (the oldest units at the plant), as well as reducing or eliminating coal from four others at Plant Barry...
Alabama Sixth Most Energy Expensive State
Wallet Hub this week published a report that gives Alabama a dubious ranking: the sixth most energy expensive state. The website used data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration,...
Dirty Air Won’t Monitor Itself
Makaya Parrish, who appears in our documentary, "Toxic City: Birmingham's Dirty Secret," knows all too well what pollution can do to your health. Makaya has asthma, a debilitating lung condition...
Air Pollution Controls Save Lives
A 17-year longitudinal study by researchers at Duke University released in June shows that air pollution controls implemented in the early 1990s correspond with reductions in death rates...