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Electric vehicle, plastic recycling plants join coal ash, Okefenokee Swamp as concerns
Two big state-endorsed economic development projects are running into early opposition, indicating they could be set to join coal ash and the Okefenokee Swamp in the larger debate over Georgia’s environmental future.
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New EPA administrator faces DeKalb County sewage spills, coal ash
DeKalb County’s discharge of raw sewage is one of the first issues facing the newly appointed EPA administrator for the Southeast. Coal ash is right behind sewage.
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Coal ash: Georgia mulls first request for permanent disposal in unlined basins
Georgia may create a statewide precedent to manage coal ash by leaving it permanently in an unlined basin under a cap made of plastic that’s covered with grass and legumes.
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Coal ash battle alive in Ga. Court of Appeals, new ‘Rising from the Ashes’ video
The campaign to remediate coal ash in Georgia is now active in two venues: A court that will help influence if customers or shareholders pay a $525 million cleanup bill; and a persuasion campaign built around a new video documentary.
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Nation’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas to be downsized in 2022, near Macon
The nation’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas is to see one of its four coal-fired power units close by Jan. 1 2022, at Plant Scherer near Macon. Cleanup at this one unit is expected to take 46 years.
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Legislative campaigns: Environmentalists set sights on coal ash, factory livestock farms
The handling of coal ash and livestock manure, when it is a byproduct of factory farming of cows, pigs and chickens, are among the environmental issues that may emerge on this year’s campaign trail, now that the focus on state lawmakers has shifted from lawmaking to campaigning.
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Coal ash: Ga. Power’s new disposal fee should be reviewed, Sierra Club says in court filing
The Sierra Club on Thursday asked a Fulton County Superior Court judge to order the state’s utility regulator to review its decision to allow Georgia Power to raise rates to pay for the disposition of coal ash – in part because terms of disposal are still pending approval from the state.
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Coal ash settlement in N.C. a guideline for Georgia – bury in lined basin or recycle
A legal settlement over coal ash in North Carolina has resulted in the type of outcome Georgia environmentalists would like to reach here – excavation of coal ash from all of a power company’s unlined basins, and placement in an onsite lined landfill or recycled for industrial use.
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Coal ash proposal could add to $3.1 billion in additional clean-up costs Southern Co. cited in 2019 report
As state lawmakers consider a new proposal to secure the ash of coal burnt to create electricity, one line jumps out of a financial report by the Southern Co. – “The ultimate outcome of these matters cannot be determined at this time.”
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Journalist who fought coal ash dump in Jesup wins Greenlaw’s Environmental Championship Award
Newspaper co-owner and president Dink NeSmith and The Press-Sentinel, of Jesup, will receive Greenlaw’s Special Media Recognition for Environmental Championship Award for their efforts to expose plans for a coal ash dump in Wayne County. The dump’s operator withdrew its 2015 application in April.
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Proposed sand mine in Wayne County could pump up to 11.5 million gallons of water a day
A proposed surface mine in Wayne County, near Georgia’s coast, will be allowed to withdraw up to 11.5 million gallons of water a day from the Altamaha River basin, according to draft permits announced June 23 by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
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Proposed coal ash dump near Jesup won’t be built, landfill operator says
A controversial coal ash dump proposed near Jesup won’t be built, according to a statement released Wednesday by the company that intended to build the landfill.
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Who killed the proposed stronger regulations for toxic coal ash?
By Guest Columnist DINK NESMITH, a Jesup native who is president and co-owner of Athens-based Community Newspapers, Inc., publishers of newspapers in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina
If fictional detective Sherlock Holmes were roaming the halls of the Georgia General Assembly, he could give an “elementary” clue why the proposed strengthening of coal-ash handling died before 2017’s Crossover Day. “My dear Watson,” the pipe-smoking sleuth would say, “follow the money.”
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Tighter coal ash rules stall in Legislature as ash pond near Smyrna is drained
An effort to increase public notice about coal ash issues, and management of coal ash dumps, has stalled in the state Legislature. The proposals are dead for the year, unless advocates can attach them to legislation that is still under consideration.
