Alabama
Top priorities
Clean Air
As a result of decades of racial segregation and residential redlining across Alabama, polluting sources including fossil fuel power plants, chemical manufacturers, cement factories, asphalt plants, and rock quarries are often sited in and around Black communities. From North Birmingham to Africatown, we’re working alongside communities to improve air quality monitoring, to review and strengthen permits to emit air pollutants, and to hold industrial polluters accountable for the unlawful release of dangerous air pollutants into the air we breathe.
Learn MoreSolar
Alabama Power charges its customers with rooftop solar panels so many unnecessary fees that it earned the unenviable title of the nation’s top charger. We’ve challenged these unjust fees in multiple venues, most recently the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery. Every Alabamian has a right to affordably access the clean energy benefits solar power provides.
Learn MoreCoal ash
We’re fighting Alabama’s plan to keep millions of tons of toxic coal ash stored next to waterways across the state by covering it and leaving it in place in leaking unlined pits. The safest way to manage toxic coal is to move it to dry, lined storage away from waterways. Utilities throughout the Southeast are cleaning up their coal ash, and Alabama deserves the same protections.
Learn MoreClean water
Teeming with plants and wildlife, Alabama streams and rivers are the most diverse in the country. However, the state is at the top of the list for the number of species at risk of extinction. SELC uses legal expertise to defend Alabama’s water from industrial pollution, poor infrastructure, and irresponsible development.
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