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What happens if you buy the wrong kind of light bulbs? If you saved the receipt, you might be able to get a refund, or swap them for the right kind. But what happens if you buy the wrong kind of power plant? If you buy a gas-fired power plant, there...

Walking up the steps of the PSC building in Montgomery on March 9, 2020 (the first day of the public hearing on Alabama Power’s proposed unprecedented capacity expansion), I passed a group of Alabama Power customers who were holding signs urging the...

In the fall of 2019, Alabama Power filed a petition with the Public Service Commission (PSC), seeking permission to charge its customers well over a billion dollars over a 40-year period for an unprecedented expansion.

We are becoming more aware of the power of nature with every update on the COVID-19 crisis. Thank you to all of our members and neighbors in various professions who are working to make our lives healthier and safer each day. Also, thank you to...

Peggie was active on the West Alabama Executive Committee for many years, and Gwendolyn was with her every step of the way.

“Why is Alabama so bad at solar energy?”It’s a question you hear any time you have a conversation about renewable energy. We’re great at soaking up the rays while swimming, hunting, fishing, or attending a sporting event, but we stink at generating...

Public health. Community. Society. Social Justice. Economy. Ecology. Environment. Globally, advocates and all are considering these elements of life with new perspectives.

This April finds us in a situation that none of us have ever experienced before. In a time when the Coronavirus is all around us, we must follow instructions to keep ourselves physically healthy and safe – but we also want to make sure we take care...

Alabama – A united network of environmental nonprofits have taken a stand against Alabama utilities’ plans to cap-in-place toxic coal ash on the banks of Alabama’s waterways.  Almost every other state in the southeast is requiring removal of...

For several grueling days starting on March 9, Sierra Club lawyers and Beyond Coal Campaign staff engaged in a three-day long hearing before the Alabama Public Service Commission in an attempt to block Alabama Power’s proposed addition of new...