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Right now, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of poop are stranded in a rural Alabama rail yard. Technically it's biowaste, but to the 982 residents in the small town of Parrish, that's ...

Limestone County leaders and community members gathered on Jefferson Street in Athens for a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Miller Steam Plant (Alabama Power Company) on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County, Alabama. Nelson Brooke Black Warrior Riverkeeper The federal government has rejected a ...

Alabama reached a new recycling milestone in 2018, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, diverting more than 25 percent of all the trash generated in the state from ...

The smell started seeping into Krissy Harmon's home late at night the weekend after Thanksgiving. "I actually thought the house was on fire," Harmon recalled. The acrid burning smell wasn't coming ...