by The GASP Team | Mar 6, 2015 | Press Release
GASP petitions EPA to investigate environmental discrimination in northern Birmingham neighborhoods suffering from toxic air pollution BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 3, 2015) — GASP today announced that it has filed a second civil rights complaint against the...
by Michael Hansen | Feb 19, 2015 | Clean Air Journal
GASP has filed a civil rights environmental discrimination complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) for its issuance of the operating permit for ABC Coke, a division of Drummond Company located in...
by The GASP Team | Jan 14, 2015 | Clean Air Journal, Opinion
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...
by Michael Hansen | Jan 6, 2015 | Clean Air Journal, Opinion
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...
by The GASP Team | Jun 11, 2014 | Clean Air Journal
PERMIT BASICS The Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency authority to issue permits known as Title V Operating Permits to sources of hazardous air pollutants. The EPA gives authority to state and local agencies to review and approve permits. In...
