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March 29, 2011 - In a lawsuit filed by GreenLaw, four environmental advocacy groups — the Alabama Environmental Council, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and Our Children’s Earth Foundation — challenged the Bush administration’s action. The federal court decided to allow EPA to reconsider its earlier decision, and Tuesday, EPA rejected the rule relaxation. Click here for the full article.
December 17, 2010 - Plans for a coal power plant in middle Georgia — Georgia's first in more than 20 years — hit a roadblock on Thursday after a state judge rejected its air permit. Administrative Law Judge Ronit Walker said the state Environmental Protection Division must reconsider the permit for Plant Washington, an 850-MW power plant planned near Sandersville, Ga. Environmental groups represented in court by the Southern Environmental Law Center and GreenLaw successfully argued that the proposed plant doesn't do enough to prevent emissions of harmful pollutants into the air. Full Article: Air Permit No Good
July 27, 2010 - A judge's ruling Monday in a Washington County power plant case will make it more difficult to pipe water from one Georgia water basin to another.
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July 27, 2010 - Georgia’s environmental regulators failed to properly review a proposed power plant’s plan before giving it permission to take water from the Oconee River and use it in another river basin, according to a judge’s ruling announced Monday.
Full Article: Judge strikes permits for coal plant
March 10, 2009
At a recent congressional hearing, Public Service Commissioner Stan Wise was quoted telling Congress that Georgia cannot meet a mandate to have at least 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Wise went on to say that other states would be able to meet the requirement, which may soon be imposed by new federal regulations, though he believes Georgia cannot.
Full Article: If sun rises, state can meet renewable energy mandate
August 4, 2008 - State chamber's amicus, joined by former AG and chief justice, says that ruling on CO2 could hurt hospitals, small farms.
GreenLaw Senior Attorney George Hays is quoted in the article countering some of the points.
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7/16/2008 - GreenLaw Executive Director Justine Thompson - special to the AJC
At GreenLaw, we call June 30, the day of Judge Moore's decision, "the day the lights came on in Georgia," because the most important light bulb we can turn on is the one in our heads that makes the connection between the energy we use and where it comes from. That's illumination.
February 19, 2008 - Opponents of a new coalfired power plant proposed for the banks of the Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia’s Early County last week asked a Fulton County judge to review the permit approved by state environmental regulators last year.
October 10, 2007 - The "A" in Atlanta may as well stand for "asthma." After all, our city was named the asthma capital of the nation earlier this year. The title is hardly surprising. Atlanta has never met the federal air-quality standards that were established more than 30 years ago.
Full Article: 'A' in Atlanta shouldn't stand for 'asthma'
May 27, 2007 - Although the Georgia Power Co. is preparing to invest billions of dollars in new technology to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, critics complain the risk of air pollution is greater than the need for cheaper electricity.
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May 7, 2007 - Georgia’s ambiguous pollution laws allow polluters to exceed limits on emissions.
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September 25, 2006 - Taliaferro County opposed a large landfill that would have dumped tons of out-of-state waste in their local watershed. Together, our victory caused a ripple effect that still reverberates in Georgia.
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October 18, 2005 - The state has agreed to restore a wetland muddied by a prison construction project in south Fulton County.
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December 9, 2003 - Live Oak Landfill, which collects more waste than any facility in Georgia and is the city of Atlanta's lone trash depository, must close by December 2004, a judge ruled Monday.
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