A panel of three US federal judges struck down a 2023 Alabama congressional map on Thursday, stating that the map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US ...

A three-judge panel said the congressional map drawn by the 2023 Alabama Legislature violated the Voting Rights Act. The judges, which ruled against the state twice before and put a new map in ...

A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, as a panel of federal judges found the version the state drew in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act ...

Alabama's Congressional Map at Stake in Federal Voting Rights Act Trial MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the ...

The $43.9 million from the EPA will flow through Alabama’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, according to Sewell’s office. The EPA also announced the availability of $35 million in ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just rejected Alabama’s plan to let utilities leave millions of tons of coal ash in unlined ponds alongside rivers. The EPA, in a formal rejection releas ...

Environmental organizations have applauded the denial, arguing that Alabama’s plans were not protective of citizens or the environment. In a statement issued after the EPA announced its decision ...

But in 2009 not only was there a much more enforcement-minded EPA administrator in Washington (in the person of Lisa Jackson), the agency for the first time created a Google map mashup of its ...

But EPA officials, in reviewing Alabama’s plan, determined that it does not meet even those minimal requirements laid out in federal law regarding groundwater protection, monitoring and cleanup.

In early August 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed denial of Alabama’s permit program to manage coal combustion residuals (CCR) in landfills and surface ...

“It’s on EPA to see it through, but we’re confident that they will,” he said. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has 30 days after the EPA’s announcement to respond to ...

The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, opened a civil rights probe last week into the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and its implementation of a federal program designed to ...