Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of energy policy from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
State regulators are rewriting how electric contracts for giant data centers get reviewed, with public comments due in August. The outcome could shape projects proposed in Calvert, Prichard and Baldwin…
Alabama Public Service Commissioner Chip Beeker and challenger Robert McCollum head to a June 21 runoff, with McCollum pushing for more scrutiny of Alabama Power's coal ash storage at Plant…
Alabama Power is defending its plan to permanently cap in place the coal ash pond at Plant Barry, even as environmental groups question the utility's approach to groundwater contamination and…
With an industrial recruitment session no longer needed, speculation in August 2008 turned to a special legislative session on natural gas royalties, a fight expected to test the oil industry's…