by Michael Hansen | Dec 28, 2016 | Press Release
For Immediate Release 19 copies of ‘Toxic City’ DVD donated to the Birmingham Public Library BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- Gasp, a Birmingham-based health advocacy nonprofit, has given the Birmingham Public Library (BPL) 19 DVD copies of “Toxic City: Birmingham’s...
by Michael Hansen | Jan 15, 2016 | Press Release
Today, the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Ala., reversed a decision by the Jefferson County Board of Health denying Gasp’s Request for Hearing on the reissuance of ABC Coke’s operating permit. Finding that Gasp adequately followed Board of Health rules, Judge...
by Michael Hansen | Apr 8, 2015 | Press Release
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2011 named ABC Coke — one of Alabama’s worst toxic air polluters — a potentially responsible party for contamination in northern Birmingham. ABC Coke’s Title V Operating Permit was up for renewal last year, and GASP...
by Michael Hansen | Sep 16, 2014 | Clean Air Journal
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing the “35th Avenue Superfund Site” in north Birmingham to the National Priorities List (NPL). According to the EPA, the site poses “risks to human health and the environment.” The GASP...
by Michael Hansen | Aug 25, 2014 | Clean Air Journal, Opinion
On Wednesday, July 30, the Jefferson County Department of Health held a press conference in which Jefferson County Health Officer Mark Wilson — our Doctor-in-Chief — presented “cancer data, death rate data and birth outcome data related to residents’...
