Alabama implemented at least one new policy or incentive supporting energy efficiency during 2022, according to data obtained from the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE).
May 8, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and a group of 41 Republican colleagues in calling for the Senate to only pass a fiscally responsible increase in the debt limit that is accompanied by spending controls.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) today joined U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) to introduce a bipartisan resolution celebrating National Charter School Week.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the conviction of an Etowah County woman for exploiting an elderly resident of an Etowah County assisted living facility out of over $10 million.
Alabama's death count did not exceed the upper threshold of death expectancy during the week ending April 29, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is continuing to bring the concerns of Alabama’s agriculture industry to the table as the state’s voice on the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (AG) Committee.
May 5, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) this week at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan on the Biden Administration’s overreaching, ambiguous, and job-killing Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in addition to their decision to revoke uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Jacob Ryan Davenport, age 30, of Columbiana, for reckless manslaughter. Davenport was convicted in the Shelby County Circuit Court on February 24, 2022.
As Florida becomes the latest state to create an education savings account (ESA) program, an analysis by the Yellowhammer Times shows that Alabama is not one of 11 states that has such a program.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Delewis Antwan Collier, age 40, of Phenix City, for murder. Collier was convicted in the Russell County Circuit Court on May 5, 2022.
May 4, 2023 – U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, yesterday led a hearing on transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) and related drug and human trafficking with officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the subcommittee’s chairman.