BP Oil spill

Mobile Bay Green Drinks is a group that meets once a month to discuss environmental issues in the state. The local chapter is one of many that meet across the world. For Mobile Bay, these meetings are a great chance to have a drink with leaders of organizations such as The Alabama Coastal Foundation and state Commissioner, Chris Blankenship. Blankenship will be a speaker for this month’s meeting.

The Civilian Conservation Corps put Americans to work on public projects during the Great Depression. That was almost ninety years ago. Now a new corps is working to improve Alabama’s coastal environment.

Four teams of scientists are getting a total of $15.6 million from BP oil spill fines to study fish, other sea life and birds in the Gulf of Mexico,…

In 2010, Bethany Kraft and Casi Callaway were colleagues working for different environmental nonprofits in Mobile, Alabama. When the Deepwater Horizon oil…

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signs a compromise bill to use the state's oil spill settlement funds for debts, Medicaid and roads.The Alabama Legislature…

A legislative conference committee plans to make a last-ditch effort to break a deadlock on how to use Alabama's settlement money from the 2010 oil spill…

Alabama’s Senate and House of Representatives are back in Montgomery once again to try and find a solution to the state’s budget woes.Governor Robert…

Even after rainy weather doused much of the state, fire crews are still working to contain a wildfire in northwest Alabama.The “Big Tree Fire” in the…

A federal court decision late Monday will allow Alabama to proceed with its economic damages jury trial against BP and other responsible parties in…

Federal prosecutors have been granted additional time to decide whether they should appeal an order throwing out the conviction of a former BP engineer in…