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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

that Attorney General Luther Strange's office said Thursday that he's looking into unusual voter registration, but had no further comment. Uniontown has a population of 1,775, according to the 2010 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UNIONTOWN, Ala. (WHNT) — According to District Attorney Robert H. Turner, Jr., 4th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, two people were ...

Ben Eaton, one of the Uniontown, Ala., residents sued by a local coal ash landfill, said, "I'm glad it's over," after a settlement with the landfill included requiring notification of toxic waste ...