City of Mobile’s Hazardous Waste Collection Event Rescheduled

The Household Hazardous Waste Collection event has been rescheduled to Saturday, January 20, 2024. This free event will allow Mobile residents to safely and responsibly discard items not accepted by routine […]
Partners for Environmental Progress and The University of South Alabama Announce Partnership with The Eagle Reef

Partners for Environmental Progress (PEP) and the University of South Alabama Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences (SSoMES) are partnering with The Eagle Reef, an Eagle Scout project initiated […]
City of Mobile to Host Recycling Feasibility Study Discussions

Be part of the discussion! The City of Mobile is hosting three public meetings on May 23 and May 24. It’s important for our PEP member companies to take part […]
Local Chemical Plant Partners with Elementary School To Build Beehives

THEODORE, Ala. (WKRG) – Bees have always had an important role in nature when springtime rolls around. Evonik Chemical Company in Mobile County saw this as an opportunity to start […]
A Cause to Clean: Causeway Clean-Up 2022

In May, PEP members, along with Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and TC Boiler & Piping, organized a clean-up along the Causeway, hosted at Austal USA. We had more than […]
AM/NS Calvert gives back to the environment

CALVERT, Ala. (WKRG) — AM/NS, a steel processing plant in Calvert, Ala., works hard to go above and beyond to give back to the environment. The plant is recognized by […]
Local non-profit recycling tons of electronics to help locals

CHICKASAW, Ala. (WKRG) – Ransom Ministries was started in 2010 by a local couple that opened a cafe where people could get a hot meal and pay whatever they could […]
Industrial machinery repurposed to bring new life as artificial reefs in Gulf of Mexico

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — In industrial plants, when old machinery reaches the end of its life and gets replaced, sometimes it ends up in a landfill. Other times, it gets […]
Growing the Gulf Coast: Aker Solutions aims to decrease carbon footprint 50% by 2030

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — You wouldn’t think that a company that supports oil and gas drilling would have an emphasis on reducing its carbon footprint. But that’s the case at […]
Growing the Gulf Coast: Local chemical plant rebuilds bird habitats

THEODORE, Ala. (WKRG) — Eastern Bluebirds have been almost wiped out in the past due to human expansion and house sparrows preying on them, but they have made a big […]