Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of water quality from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
State regulators heard testimony in Saraland on three permits for Alabama Power's Plant Barry, as environmental advocates pushed for stricter limits on wastewater discharges tied to the plant's coal ash…
SATSUMA, Ala. — Alabama Power held a public meeting Tuesday in Satsuma to discuss its plans for permanently closing the coal ash ponds at Plant Barry, the company’s coal-fired generating…
Gulf Shores has placed 836 acres of wetlands along Oyster Bay under a permanent conservation easement, protecting the land from future development and funding habitat restoration through a federal Deepwater…
The Alabama Environmental Management Commission voted unanimously to extend ADEM Director Lance LeFleur's contract for another year, despite an overwhelming majority of public comments criticizing his handling of coal ash…
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…
Mobile Area Water and Sewer System says a thick mat of wet wipes and cooking grease clogging a lift station on Eslava Creek is part of a costly, systemwide problem…
ALDOT crews are conducting pile driving work this week near the Wallace Tunnel as part of ongoing foundation testing for the proposed Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project.
The Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council is preparing to select its first round of BP settlement-funded projects by the end of July, weighing hundreds of millions of dollars in road,…
Alabama regulators are proposing $250,000 in fines against the AM/NS Calvert steel plant for air and water quality violations traced to an onsite acid regeneration facility, following a joint state-federal…
Alabama environmental regulators and the state attorney general have sued Daphne Utilities in Baldwin County Circuit Court, alleging the public utility made errors in reporting sewer spills.