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APN Georgia Assembly Crossover Day Overview, 2016

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(APN) ATLANTA — Monday, February 29, 2016 was Crossover Day for the Georgia Legislature.  This is the day that bills must pass from one chamber to another in order to still be active for consideration in becoming a law.   Atlanta Progressive News has provided extensive and comprehensive coverage of the legislative session again this year.   The following is […]

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Two Bills Would Protect Georgia’s Bodies of Water

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(APN) ATLANTA — Members of the Georgia Water Coalition from around the State of Georgia lobbied on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at the State Capitol for priority conservation bills,  HB 966 and SB 36.   The Georgia Water Coalition is a group of more than 180 organizations representing over a quarter million Georgians.   HB 966 – Provides a 25 […]

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Activists Rally in Atlanta to Celebrate EPA’s Clean Power Plan

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(APN) ATLANTA — On Wednesday, August 05, 2015, over two hundred people gathered at Liberty Plaza, across from the Georgia State Capitol, to celebrate and support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final Clean Power Plan (CPP).   The group was diverse with representatives from the faith community, business community, environmental organizations, elected officials, as well as just plain folks.   […]

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EPD Issues Order Harming Georgia’s Saltwater Marshes

(APN) ATLANTA — In a surprise announcement ironically given on Earth Day, April 22, 2014, Environmental Protection Division (EPD) Director Jud Turner issued an order to create a massive rollback to the protections presently used to defend the saltwater marshes in Georgia. The rollback will eliminate the buffers that guard the marshes from pollutants.     With no public hearing […]

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Georgia Power Seeks EPD Approval to Further Drain Savannah River

(APN) WAYNESBORO — The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) is debating a request from Southern Company for the rights to take 74 million gallons of water per day from the Savannah River to cool two new nuclear reactors that Georgia Power is currently constructing at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia.       The decision stands to have a major […]

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AG Olens Ignored State EPD in Clean Air Challenge

(APN) ATLANTA — Sam Olens, the Attorney General of the State of Georgia, sought but ultimately ignored the advice of Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD), in a legal challenge of new rules issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the Clean Air Act. EPD advised Olens against challenging the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule; however, […]

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