Atlanta’s traffic congestion often isn’t mentioned in the reports of epic growth involving the state-owned Port of Savannah. This remains the case with the recently announced purchase of about 2,284 acres for a planned industrial center along I-16, 28 miles west of the port.
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DeKalb County’s sewage treatment update remains under review after six months
Since Dec. 4, 2020, the federal EPA has been evaluating more than 300 pages of public comments submitted in response to proposed changes in DeKalb County’s federal consent decree that’s to stop the spillage of untreated sewage into waterways.
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Apalachicola region trying to recover after losing water war, oyster industry
PORT ST. JOE, Fl. – The jobs lost in the Apalachicola Bay’s shuttered oyster industry won’t be easy to replace. But green shoots are sprouting in the form of two new industries about 23 miles away.
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Vidalia onion harvest helped by dry weather as ATL starts summer with normal rainfall
Metro Atlanta enters summer with no areas of abnormal dryness, though portions of the coastal area are showing signs of being dry and the level of moisture in soil is falling across the state, according to an array of state and federal reports.
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ExxonMobile’s board toppled by two funds that went after Southern Co. in 2020
Two pension funds that helped topple ExxonMobile’s management team Wednesday were part of an unsuccessful effort that last year sought a new leadership structure at Southern Co. in an attempt to bring about more dramatic action on climate change.
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Emory’s new pedestrian bridge in Midtown seeks to merge aesthetics, purpose
The two-story pedestrian bridge that’s to link Emory University Hospital Midtown and the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University contains flourishes that add visual texture to a bridge with the main purpose of easing access for cancer patients.
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Free exhibit on safe water shows its value, how to provide it to everyone
The Global Water Center has opened at the Mall of Georgia a Mobile Discovery Center that is part of an effort to help end the world’s water crisis by building consensus around generally accepted safe water practices.
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Feds raise protections for North Atlantic right whales, but sea turtles may suffer
North Atlantic right whales have gained protections and sea turtles are more imperiled under a new federal calendar for harbor dredging that came to light May 14 in a federal lawsuit that seeks to protect sea turtles.
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In memoriam for North Atlantic right whales lost this season, but hope for recovery
By Guest Columnist PAULITA BENNETT-MARTIN, Savannah-based field representative of Oceana
Every year in the southern Atlantic waters off Florida and Georgia, people get excited to see rare North Atlantic right whales, especially moms with calves. That’s because there are only around 360 of these critically endangered whales remaining, so any sighting is special. These whales can travel more than 1,000 miles to reach our coast every year in the fall. Many of them are females coming here to have calves.
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Blue Heron Nature Preserve’s free art show explores theme of ‘Into the Wild’
As the artist wrote of her newly unveiled work at Blue Heron Nature Preserve: “My piece speaks to the need for people to find a way back home to grounded safe space.”
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Earth Day, BP gulf oil spill observed as new challenge emerges at Apalachicola Bay
Earth Day and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This week’s recognition of these events occurs as polar opposite human interventions are unfolding around Florida’s Apalachicola Bay.
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Earth Day 2021: Hope springs eternal, even with threat to Okefenokee Swamp,
By GUEST COLUMNIST JOE COOK, Paddle Georgia coordinator and guidebook series author
In the spring of 1970, Georgia’s then comptroller general and Republican gubernatorial hopeful, Jimmy Bentley, dispatched 65 telegrams to state and national leaders – including President Richard Nixon – all in an attempt to have the date of the country’s first Earth Day celebration changed.
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National spotlight shines on South River as example of environmental injustice
The South River’s designation as an example of environmental injustice on American Rivers’ list of 10 most endangered rivers arrives as the nation focuses attention on Georgia for its revised and restrictive elections law.
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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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Sally Sears hopes travel memoir offers ‘good medicine for the pandemic’
Sally Sears’ latest big story is her own travel memoir, an around-the-world journey by a budding journalist in the era when Rick Steves was just beginning to tell travelers to get off the beaten path.
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Extracting natural resources from natural wonders: Okefenokee Swamp, Pamlico River
AURORA, N.C. – The world’s largest phosphate mine and chemical plant operates in the nation’s largest lagoonal estuary. This area in eastern North Carolina bears watching as Georgia officials review a proposal to mine sand from the edge of the nation’s largest blackwater swamp – Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.
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MARTA at forefront of Biden, D.C. focus on transit to reduce climate change
As Congress and the Biden administration look to mass transit to help curb greenhouse gas emissions and ease climate change, MARTA’s work to reduce its carbon footprint with CNG- and battery-fueled buses is being recognized nationally.
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Plant Vogtle’s latest delay prompts negative comment on Georgia Power: Moody’s
This story has been updated with comments from Georgia Power.
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Right whales – public comments range from ‘save the whales’ to ‘save the fishermen’
“What world do we want to give to our children?” That’s all a Swiss man had to say about a proposal intended to protect Georgia’s endangered marine mammal – the right whale.
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Ozone season hasn’t arrived early; breathing difficulties caused by smoke from fires
Ozone season has not arrived early in metro Atlanta and across parts of Georgia. The haze and poor air quality last week was the result of smoke from agricultural fires and should begin to dissipate by Monday, according to the state climatologist.
