The state's Environmental Protection Division (EPD) office in Savannah closed July 1, the most recent victim of the state's ongoing budget cuts. Shuttering the local office raises questions about whether regulatory oversight in the area is sufficient to monitor the range of industry and development here.
| August 31, 2010
At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, you can gawk at a whale shark, the biggest fish in the world. They have four of the large-mouthed leviathans up there, the longest coming in at just under 24 feet.
| August 24, 2010I once heard a well-known evangelist ridicule Earth Day, saying, "What is it anyway - the celebration of dirt?"
| August 24, 2010My mom always called me a "noticer." This summer, as I venture outdoors, I'm noticing that certain wild things - things I recall from dog days past - have gone missing.
| August 10, 2010
My neighbor’s front lawn is brown; every green leafy thing has died. It looks as if a horrific drought or plague singled out his property while the surrounding yards are verdant.
| July 13, 2010
If you turned on the TV recently, there’s a good chance you saw Samantha Joye, Marine Sciences professor at the University of Georgia, doing interviews, from Rachel Maddow to Good Morning America to Congress itself.
| June 15, 2010While Mitsubishi Power Systems will take up a small portion of the Pooler Megasite, the remainder of the 1500-acre parcel at I-16 and I-95 has the potential to be further transformed into a mixed–use commercial/industrial campus to attract a variety of renewable energy companies. Along with Mitsubishi, those firms could form the core of a vibrant community that would bring to the region more companies that share the energy goals of the 21st Century.
| June 08, 2010
With millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico over the past month and the ongoing threat of global warming tied to burning fossil fuels, the question of how we will power households and businesses through the 21st century and into the future looms larger than ever.
| June 01, 2010LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE and answer the questions foremost on your mind: Will oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico make it to the Georgia coast?
| May 21, 2010
She breaks surf silently, like a piece of driftwood lodged in the wet sand. Guided only by instinct, and by the position of the moon and stars, the turtle drags herself forward using her muscular front flippers.
| May 11, 2010
Inspired by an environmental disaster nearly two decades ago, a comprehensive new research project is underway at the Skidaway Institute that could change our understanding of how pollutants interact with marshes.
| April 30, 2010
Created in 2004, the Hip Hop Caucus was the brainchild of minister and community activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood, who saw an opportunity to engage the hip hop generation in efforts to change social and political issues.
| April 13, 2010
This is the third and final installment of a series exploring the financial impact of expanding the nuclear facility Plant Vogtle. The first piece looked at the federal tax dollars being used to subsidize nuclear energy development. The second part explained the rate increase passed by state legislators to help Georgia Power finance the project.
| March 30, 2010
This is the second part of a series investigating the financial and environmental implications of the Plant Vogtle expansion. The first part of the series discussed how federal tax dollars were being used to subsidize the development of the nuclear industry.
| March 23, 2010Water conservation efforts underway in the General Assembly are noble in claims but anemic in substance. The Georgia Water Stewardship Act of 2010 creates valuable first steps, but falls short of being legitimate because it favors the state’s major water users.
| March 16, 2010
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