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The Alabama Department of Public Health created a legal agreement with the U.S. to take immediate action on raw sewage exposure issues in Lowndes County last month. ADPH recently announced the details of its moratorium in a press release.
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The U.S. Department of Justice says an environmental justice probe found Alabama engaged in a pattern of inaction and neglect regarding the risks of raw sewage for residents in an impoverished county.
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Environmental and legal advocacy organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama. They accuse the state of discriminating against minority communities in how it distributes funding for wastewater infrastructure. The complaint filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maintains that Alabama policies for distributing money from a revolving fund have left behind poor households.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — How much untreated sewage gets dumped in Alabama's Black Belt?That's the question a team of students and professors at the…
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Former Vice President Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, co-chair of the national Poor People's Campaign, held a town hall in Alabama Thursday to…
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Several water protection organizations have released an interactive map of the sewage spills that occurred in Alabama last year.According to the map, over…
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A group of environmental advocates in north Alabama have announced their intent to sue utilities boards in Muscle Shoals and Tuscumbia over violations of…
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Workers in the Tuscaloosa area spent their holiday weekend dealing with a massive sewage spill that could pose a serious threat to area…
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Fourth of July celebrations in Tuscaloosa and Northport were complicated yesterday as the area continues to address a massive sewage spill.Northport…
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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Black Warrior Riverkeeper are investigating after the city of Northport dumped tens of thousands of…