Taxonomy Archives: Georgia

April 21, 2020

Amid Health Crisis, Trump Administration Advances Rule to Gut Essential Clean Water Protections

WASHINGTON, DC – As communities across the country take action against COVID-19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today published a rule in the Federal Re...

April 21, 2020

Court Again Rules that Flawed Decision to Continue Vogtle Project May Not be Challenged Until Project is Finished

ATLANTA, GA—A Fulton County Superior Court has again declined to address the merits of a challenge to the 2017 decision by the Georgia Public Service Commission to approve continuation of the Plant Vo...

April 15, 2020

Nation’s last new coal plant proposal finally succumbs in Georgia

April 6, 2020

Company submits new application to skirt environmental review for mine near Okefenokee swamp

March 5, 2020

SELC calls on FAA to start new review of flawed spaceport

January 31, 2020

SELC Announces Winners of the Phil Reed Environmental Writing Awards

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—The Southern Environmental Law Center has announced the winners of its 2020 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awards, to be presented during the Virginia Festival of the Book i...

January 23, 2020

Trump Administration Announces Unprecedented Move to Strip Clean Water Act Protections

WASHINGTON–The Trump administration today announced its rule to gut long-established clean water protections despite opposition from hundreds of thousands of Americans.

January 17, 2020

Comments filed in massive Chattahoochee forest project

January 3, 2020

U.S. Forest Service’s Chattahoochee National Forest management project silences public input for decades

December 17, 2019

Public service commission hikes mandatory fees for Georgia Power customers