Alabama officials say there has been progress on a $31 million project to fix widespread sewage overflows in the struggling Black Belt city of Uniontown, but in the meantime the sewage, and the ...

At a municipal sprayfield in Uniontown, Alabama, a spigot blasts what it supposed to be fully treated wastewater into the air. The water is meant to seep down into the ground, or evaporate or be ...

Residents of Uniontown, Alabama, have lived with the Arrowhead landfill, which is twice the size of New York’s Central Park, have protested shipments of toxic coal ash—the residual byproduct of ...

Uniontown, Alabama has raised funds to mend its long deficient wastewater system. But residents are concerned about their level of involvement in the decision-making. Members of Black Belt Citizens ...

Sewage overflows in Uniontown — onto private property, under homes and into creeks — as it has for over a decade. Consequently, the city of Uniontown and its waterworks and sewer board have been ...

“My dream,” said Ben Eaton, one of the roughly 3,000 people who live in the working-class, mostly African-American hamlet of Uniontown, Alabama, “was to grow up, get married, build my own home, and ...

“They put dumps in Black and Brown communities, poor communities, that they think can’t fight back,’’ said Esther Calhoun, an independent activist and former president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting ...

Scoring runs in high school softball can come at a premium and on Monday night in a contest between Uniontown (AL) Robert C.

The Arrowhead landfill in Uniontown, Ala., has drawn complaints from residents since it opened in 2007, and more since it started accepting coal ash in 2008. Photo courtesy of Michael D. Smith “My ...