by Jilisa Milton | Dec 10, 2024 | Clean Air Journal
This year, we celebrate a pivotal moment in the history of environmental protection: the anniversary of the Clean Air Act. Signed into law on December 31,1970, this landmark legislation transformed the way our nation combats air pollution, prioritizing the health and...
by Perry Dowell | Oct 3, 2024 | Clean Air Journal
Birmingham has a long history of air pollution known for harming its own residentsvand communities while contributing to global climate change. In this article, I’d like to address how local air quality is both an issue of public health and climate change. First,...
by Max Blau, ProPublica | Sep 2, 2022 | Clean Air Journal
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on...
by Michael Hansen | Jul 22, 2019 | Press Release
Flawed Consent Decree Fails Local Communities Impacted by ABC Coke’s Illegal Pollution BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — 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...
by Kirsten Bryant | Oct 4, 2017 | Clean Air Journal
Tidying up my family’s summer vegetable and flower gardens brought some calmness to a hectic week. With every season and year that passes, playing in the dirt as therapy gains greater significance for me. I recall when my boys (now teenagers) were young, giving...
