Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
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Alabama reporter for Inside Climate News. Previously at AL.com. Also previously well rested.
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Aug 20
Alabama Town’s Residents Seek Preemptive Strike Against Massive Data Center Project - Inside Climate News
“That’s going to be their legacy, to potentially destroy a small town,” said one resident of the landowner and developers of a proposed hyperscale data center.
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding...
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Capped Alabama Coal Ash Pond Still Polluting Groundwater 7 Years After Closure, Lawsuit Claims - Inside Climate News
Coosa Riverkeeper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Power, alleging significant groundwater pollution violations from the utility’s Gadsden coal ash pond that has been capped in place since 2018...
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Alabama’s New Utility Commission President Wants to Hear From ‘All Sides’ as She Assumes New Role - Inside Climate News
Cynthia Lee Almond spent four years in the Alabama Legislature and 16 years on the Tuscaloosa City Council before being appointed president of the state’s Public Service Commission.
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Alabama Reflector
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· Jun 25
Alabama environmental groups secure rare win in fight to update water toxicity standards | Alabama Reflector
The decision was a rare win for environmental groups operating in the deep-red state, from a board that rarely votes against the department’s recommendations.
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Alabama Reflector
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· May 23
Alabama Power threatened with lawsuit for contaminating groundwater with coal ash | Alabama Reflector
Coosa Riverkeeper has filed a formal notice of intent to sue Alabama Power over the groundwater pollution from a pond near the site of the Gadsden Steam Plant.
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Apr 11
Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities - Inside Climate News
The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewa...
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Bob Berwyn
@bberwyn.bsky.social
· Mar 26
NOAA Cuts Weather Balloon Launches Due to Staff Shortages After DOGE Layoffs - Inside Climate News
The president-elect of the American Meteorological Society compares the situation to bolts in a steel office building, warning: “Nobody can say how many bolts you can leave out or remove before the st...
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service - Inside Climate News
Meteorologist James Spann appeals to his 1.3 million Facebook followers to support the agency, threatened by Trump cuts, that produces the data he relies upon for his forecasts.
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Alabama Reflector
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· Feb 24
Federal funding restored for low-income Alabama utility assistance after outcry • Alabama Reflector
ADECA did not respond to multiple requests for more information or answer whether it had received guidance from the federal government to reinstate the program.
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Feb 22
Federal Funding Restored for Low-Income Alabama Utility Assistance After Outcry - Inside Climate News
A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump. The Alabama Department of Econ...
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Dennis Pillion
@dennispillion.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills - Inside Climate News
Many of the 2,000 Alabama households impacted had already seen the funds credited to their accounts and will have to pay the money back on their next bill.
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Lisa Sorg
@lisasorg.bsky.social
· Feb 6
‘It’s Worse Every Day’: Environmental Justice Staffers at EPA Face Uncertain Future as Potential Layoffs Loom - Inside Climate News
Former EPA regional administrators worry the actions will unravel decades of work protecting public health from pollution.
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