Cleo King said he prays about every vote he takes as a city councilor in Bessemer, Alabama. Here's what he said about his vote against a massive data center. New from @insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...

Alabama will move heaven and earth to protect a football program’s win record. But fans passing out in the stands? Dozens of heat calls a game? Concrete at 130°? We get cooling stations and a “hydrate” reminder. Game times and TV money stay untouched. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...

An @insideclimatenews.org analysis found temps in football stadiums can spike for hours, from 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside...Auburn averaged over 100 emergency calls per game in 2024, the majority being heat-related. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...

Temperatures inside southern football stadiums can be 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside the facilities, leaving spectators at elevated risk of heat injury. A new story on scorching Saturdays from @insideclimatenews.org. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...

Via Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion & Inside Climate News: With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the project. https://ow.ly/YQAk50XrPy6

With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on approval of a data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters, a fish and a "zombie" highway could be significant hurdles for the development. insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...

Via Dennis Pillion and Lee Hedgepeth Inside Climate News examined the 2024 federal filings of 100 of the largest electric utilities in the country. None reported higher total residential electric bills, on average, than Alabama Power. And a big reason is lax regulation. https://ow.ly/w57i50XlWmS

An @insideclimatenews.org analysis shows that Alabama Power customers pay the highest residential electricity bills in the United States. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

This deep look at the consumer unfriendly actions of Alabama Power is very much worth your time. Great work from my colleagues @dennispillion.bsky.social and @leehedgepeth.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

Today, Inside Climate News published our first piece in an investigative series on Alabama Power called "Wired for Profit." Take a moment to read and share. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...

Via Lee Hedgepeth: In an interview with Inside Climate News, Joe Pizarchik, a former top federal mining regulator, spoke at length about the current regulatory environment around coal mining and, more specifically, about a recent announcement in Alabama. https://ow.ly/xrnc50Xl4Gc

Alabama has suspended methane monitoring above mines forced by the feds after a fatal home explosion. Its excuse? Monitoring for the gas may be too costly for coal companies. Joe Pizarchik, the nation's former top coal regulator, told me that's not true. insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...

Possibly 16 minutes of torture. This man claimed innocence but this country cannot.

Oh my god

This is, hands down, one of the worst witness accounts in a long line of horrifying accounts of cruel and unusual capital punishment in this god forsaken country

A US Supreme Court majority signs off on allowing the state of Alabama to experiment with torture and death. I'd say there aren't words to describe it but there are via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

@leehedgepeth.bsky.social's report from Boyd's execution will certainly find its way into Sotomayor's next dissent from an Alabama gassing www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

After Anthony Boyd had struggled for air inside the gas mask for many minutes, his brother broke the silence in the witness room. "It's like he's gasping for air," he said. My full eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

Absolutely horrific.

This. Is. Horrifying.

Reading this article made me sick to my stomach.

horrific but necessary reporting:

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times @leehedgepeth.bsky.social www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

This evening, I will serve as a witness to the nitrogen gas execution of Anthony Boyd, should it move forward. Take a moment to read this story about his legacy on death row. If the state executes Boyd, an eyewitness account will be added to this piece. www.treadbylee.com/p/hope-in-th...

Public safety 101: when methane is tied to a fatal explosion, you don’t suspend monitoring. You expand it and publish the data. Alabama should reinstate the plan and brief Oak Grove residents. @leehedgepeth.bsky.social #UnmuteAlabama #FamiliesFirst insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

18 months after a fatal home atop a coal mine, Alabama says it no longer plans to require monitoring of explosive gases under homes. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

Will Berry opposed the execution of Geoffrey West, the man who took his mother's life. Alabama suffocated him anyway. Read the full story here.

Please watch this

Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

Yesterday, I watched as Will Berry, whose mother was murdered during a 1997 robbery, delivered a petition to Gov. Ivey asking that the man who took her life be spared. Alabama plans to suffocate him anyway. Read the full story here.

More about my client’s pending execution and the courageous survivors who are speaking up for restorative justice, not murder, here from @leehedgepeth.bsky.social. It was a holy way to welcome the new year, I suppose. And heartbreaking. www.treadbylee.com/p/where-ther...

The always stop-what-you're-doing-and-read-worthy Lee Hedgepeth drops another that might make my latest a little later-est today.

The state of Alabama is hellbent on killing Geoff West. Will Berry, whose mother Maggie was West's victim, implores the state to call off the execution. via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

Alabama won't allow a victim's son to meet the person who took his mother's life before it suffocates the condemned man to death. But they've saved him a seat at the execution he opposes. Full story: www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Those living and working in and around Remlap, about 20 miles northeast of Birmingham, have rallied in opposition to a proposed medical waste processing facility on Highway 75, a stone’s throw from the Jefferson County line.

In Remlap, Alabama, grandparents, firefighters, nurses, and farmers packed the courthouse to oppose a medical waste facility planned in a flood zone by Gurley Creek. Their message speaks for all of us: We are not a dumping ground. @leehedgepeth.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

"I decided that if we die, we’d die together." A harrowing first person account of surviving Hurricane Katrina by @insideclimatenews.org's @leehedgepeth.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

This is a brilliant and touching remembrance of living through Hurricane Katrina, written by @leehedgepeth.bsky.social.

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: What it was like to be 11 years old and to face the full fury of Hurricane Katrina.

This is a hell of a piece from @leehedgepeth.bsky.social. One of the very best Katrina-related stories I've read.

Terrific/tough personal account of living through Katrina and its legacy...must read @leehedgepeth.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

20 years ago, when I was just 11 years old, my family hunkered down for Hurricane Katrina in a trailer in south Mobile County, just a few miles from the Gulf. Read my latest, a #HurricaneKatrina remembrance, in @insideclimatenews.org. insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

As an 11-year-old, I lived through #HurricaneKatrina in a trailer park a few miles from the coast. Here's a remembrance featuring my story and the story of David Dai, one of my closest friends. Just out from @insideclimatenews.org.

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Colombian President Gustavo Petro singled out Drummond and Glencore, a Switzerland-based coal producer, for potentially violating the presidential decree, according to a translation of the speech by Radio Nacional de Colombia.

"[Drummond] shouldn’t be shipping coal to the state of Israel in the first place, given Israel’s persistent human rights record,” one protester told @insideclimatenews.org near the company's corporate campus on Friday. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/2208202...

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Bessemer City Council members voted unanimously on Tuesday to send a recommendation to approve rezoning and a development plan for a 4.5 million square foot data center back to its planning and zoning commission for further consideration.

The latest from Bessemer, @insideclimatenews.org's seventh story on the proposed hyperscale data center slated to use more electricity than 90 times the power consumed by every home in the city combined. insideclimatenews.org/news/2108202...

Breaking news: After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous  insideclimatenews.org/news/1108202...