Lee Hedgepeth
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
Alabama reporter for Inside Climate News. Storyteller. Alabamian. I write Tread by Lee, a newsletter of Southern journalism. Sign up at www.TreadbyLee.com
Cleo King said he prays about every vote he takes as a city councilor in Bessemer, Alabama. Here's what he said about his vote against a massive data center. New from
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Cleo King said he prays about every vote he takes as a city councilor in Bessemer, Alabama. Here's what he said about his vote against a massive data center. New from
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
@insideclimatenews.org. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...
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Alabama will move heaven and earth to protect a football program’s win record.
But fans passing out in the stands?
Dozens of heat calls a game?
Concrete at 130°?
We get cooling stations and a “hydrate” reminder.
Game times and TV money stay untouched.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
But fans passing out in the stands?
Dozens of heat calls a game?
Concrete at 130°?
We get cooling stations and a “hydrate” reminder.
Game times and TV money stay untouched.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums - Inside Climate News
Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Alabama will move heaven and earth to protect a football program’s win record.
But fans passing out in the stands?
Dozens of heat calls a game?
Concrete at 130°?
We get cooling stations and a “hydrate” reminder.
Game times and TV money stay untouched.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
But fans passing out in the stands?
Dozens of heat calls a game?
Concrete at 130°?
We get cooling stations and a “hydrate” reminder.
Game times and TV money stay untouched.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
An @insideclimatenews.org analysis found temps in football stadiums can spike for hours, from 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside...Auburn averaged over 100 emergency calls per game in 2024, the majority being heat-related. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
An @insideclimatenews.org analysis found temps in football stadiums can spike for hours, from 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside...Auburn averaged over 100 emergency calls per game in 2024, the majority being heat-related. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
Temperatures inside southern football stadiums can be 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside the facilities, leaving spectators at elevated risk of heat injury. A new story on scorching Saturdays from @insideclimatenews.org. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Temperatures inside southern football stadiums can be 10 to 16 degrees higher than outside the facilities, leaving spectators at elevated risk of heat injury. A new story on scorching Saturdays from @insideclimatenews.org. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
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Via Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion & Inside Climate News: With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the project. https://ow.ly/YQAk50XrPy6
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Via Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion & Inside Climate News: With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the project. https://ow.ly/YQAk50XrPy6
With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on approval of a data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters, a fish and a "zombie" highway could be significant hurdles for the development. insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
With the Bessemer City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on approval of a data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters, a fish and a "zombie" highway could be significant hurdles for the development. insideclimatenews.org/news/1311202...
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Via Dennis Pillion and Lee Hedgepeth Inside Climate News examined the 2024 federal filings of 100 of the largest electric utilities in the country. None reported higher total residential electric bills, on average, than Alabama Power. And a big reason is lax regulation. https://ow.ly/w57i50XlWmS
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Via Dennis Pillion and Lee Hedgepeth Inside Climate News examined the 2024 federal filings of 100 of the largest electric utilities in the country. None reported higher total residential electric bills, on average, than Alabama Power. And a big reason is lax regulation. https://ow.ly/w57i50XlWmS
An @insideclimatenews.org analysis shows that Alabama Power customers pay the highest residential electricity bills in the United States. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
An @insideclimatenews.org analysis shows that Alabama Power customers pay the highest residential electricity bills in the United States. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
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This deep look at the consumer unfriendly actions of Alabama Power is very much worth your time. Great work from my colleagues @dennispillion.bsky.social and @leehedgepeth.bsky.social:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
How Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out to Become One of the Most Powerful Utilities in the Country - Inside Climate News
In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no pushback from state regulators.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This deep look at the consumer unfriendly actions of Alabama Power is very much worth your time. Great work from my colleagues @dennispillion.bsky.social and @leehedgepeth.bsky.social:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
Today, Inside Climate News published our first piece in an investigative series on Alabama Power called "Wired for Profit." Take a moment to read and share. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today, Inside Climate News published our first piece in an investigative series on Alabama Power called "Wired for Profit." Take a moment to read and share. insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
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Via Lee Hedgepeth: In an interview with Inside Climate News, Joe Pizarchik, a former top federal mining regulator, spoke at length about the current regulatory environment around coal mining and, more specifically, about a recent announcement in Alabama. https://ow.ly/xrnc50Xl4Gc
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Via Lee Hedgepeth: In an interview with Inside Climate News, Joe Pizarchik, a former top federal mining regulator, spoke at length about the current regulatory environment around coal mining and, more specifically, about a recent announcement in Alabama. https://ow.ly/xrnc50Xl4Gc
Alabama has suspended methane monitoring above mines forced by the feds after a fatal home explosion. Its excuse? Monitoring for the gas may be too costly for coal companies. Joe Pizarchik, the nation's former top coal regulator, told me that's not true. insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Alabama has suspended methane monitoring above mines forced by the feds after a fatal home explosion. Its excuse? Monitoring for the gas may be too costly for coal companies. Joe Pizarchik, the nation's former top coal regulator, told me that's not true. insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...
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Possibly 16 minutes of torture. This man claimed innocence but this country cannot.
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Possibly 16 minutes of torture. This man claimed innocence but this country cannot.
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Oh my god
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Oh my god
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This is, hands down, one of the worst witness accounts in a long line of horrifying accounts of cruel and unusual capital punishment in this god forsaken country
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is, hands down, one of the worst witness accounts in a long line of horrifying accounts of cruel and unusual capital punishment in this god forsaken country
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A US Supreme Court majority signs off on allowing the state of Alabama to experiment with torture and death.
I'd say there aren't words to describe it but there are via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
I'd say there aren't words to describe it but there are via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A US Supreme Court majority signs off on allowing the state of Alabama to experiment with torture and death.
I'd say there aren't words to describe it but there are via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
I'd say there aren't words to describe it but there are via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
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@leehedgepeth.bsky.social's report from Boyd's execution will certainly find its way into Sotomayor's next dissent from an Alabama gassing www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social's report from Boyd's execution will certainly find its way into Sotomayor's next dissent from an Alabama gassing www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After Anthony Boyd had struggled for air inside the gas mask for many minutes, his brother broke the silence in the witness room. "It's like he's gasping for air," he said. My full eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
After Anthony Boyd had struggled for air inside the gas mask for many minutes, his brother broke the silence in the witness room. "It's like he's gasping for air," he said. My full eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
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Absolutely horrific.
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Absolutely horrific.
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This. Is. Horrifying.
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This. Is. Horrifying.
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Reading this article made me sick to my stomach.
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reading this article made me sick to my stomach.
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horrific but necessary reporting:
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
horrific but necessary reporting:
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Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...