wastewater spill

The Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, are filing a lawsuit against Bluestone Coke. The environmental groups allege the company is in violation of the Federal Clean Water Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the expansion of its successful Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative to 150 additional communities as part of President Biden’s Investing America agenda. This includes Greene County and Lowndes County in Alabama.

Environmental and legal advocacy organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama. They accuse the state of discriminating against minority communities in how it distributes funding for wastewater infrastructure. The complaint filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maintains that Alabama policies for distributing money from a revolving fund have left behind poor households.

HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama is suing Tyson Foods over a 2019 wastewater spill that caused the largest recorded fish kill in the state.…