The Alabama Department of Public Health says it will not resume issuing fines and citations to Lowndes County residents for ...

The DOJ will no longer push ‘environmental justice’ as viewed through a distorting, DEI lens,” reads the government release.

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 ...

Two years after the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services negotiated a historic settlement with Alabama ...

After a historic federal agreement to address the state's sewage crisis is scrapped, Black residents in Lowndes County are left exposed to raw waste.

Choctaw County, in Alabama’s Black Belt region, had the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the state in 2023, at 283.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) per person ...

The Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association (ALBBAA) is again sponsoring its Big Gobbler Photo Contest, giving hunters the ...

A settlement agreement related to longstanding sewer issues in Lowndes County is being immediately terminated, the U.S.

The Black Belt region of Alabama was originally named for its dark ... Field surveys of hundreds of rural residencies in three counties performed in 2005 and 2017 have documented that upwards of 50% ...

The Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association (ALBBAA) is again sponsoring its Big Gobbler Photo Contest, giving hunters the ...

Catherine Coleman Flowers, a Lowndes County native whose civil rights complaint led to the 2023 settlement, has fought for years to help improve the lives of residents of the Alabama Black Belt.