Transparency Alabama Link Library

More coming soon! Still under construction.

Interactive Maps Project

  • To interact with our existing maps on Google Earth, visit our Interactive Maps Project in Google Earth. We will have a community demo soon to show people unfamiliar with Google Earth how to interact with the maps :D

    The purpose of the Interactive Maps Project is for the public to be able to interact with different map layers they care about to explore geographic relationships between humans, earth, industry, and government.

    • If you would like the KML files for your own mapping projects, here they are with the last date they were updated:

      • Schools

      • Agency Monitors

        • JCDH Monitors

          • Last updated: late 2024

          • Description: This is a map of where all JCDH agency air monitors are located. For future updates of this map, you can find the locations of all JCDH monitors in the annual Ambient Air Monitoring Network Review. This is supposed to be posted on JCDH’s website.

        • ADEM Monitors

          • Last updated: mid-2024

          • Description: This is a map of where all ADEM agency air monitors are located. For future updates of this map, you can find the locations of all ADEM monitors in the annual ADEM Ambient Air Monitoring Network Plan. This is supposed to be posted on ADEM’s website.

      • Industry

        • Active Polluter Map

          • Last updated: March 2025

          • Description: This is a map of all (known/found) active polluters in the Greater-Birmingham area.

        • Coal and Natural Gas Power Plants

          • Last updated: spring 2025

          • Still in progress?

        • All Permitted JCDH Air Facilities

          • Last updated: spring 2025

          • Description: Map NOT finished. Different from Active Polluter Map because the Active Polluter Map includes known polluters that do NOT have (and do not require) any permits to operate.

          • Spreadsheet that the map is based on: JCDH Air Facilities (2024)

        • Project Marvel (guesstimation)

          • Last updated: summer 2025

          • Description: A rough guesstimation of the Project Marvel data center project plan site polygon. The purpose of this map was to estimate how close the Project Marvel site is to Bessemer and Jefferson County schools, existing sources of pollution, etc. Made in Google Earth so the public can input their own address and use the Google Earth measuring tool to approximate the distance of the proposed data center from their home.

      • Landfills, Unpermitted Green Waste Dumps, and UADs (more explanation coming soon!)