by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 31, 2020 | Democracy, Effective Government, Elections, Energy & Climate
What exactly is gerrymandering – and why should environmentalists care? Once every decade, the U.S. Census is conducted. This historical record counts all persons living within the population. The final counts are then used to recalculate the number of seats that each...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 31, 2020 | Democracy, Effective Government, Elections, Energy & Climate, Environmental Justice
Every ten years, the U.S. government issues a census survey to collect information about the American population. The information that is collected is used for two critical purposes: 1. More than $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed to state and local...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 30, 2020 | Environmental Justice
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped change the country when he spoke out against the racial injustices that African Americans faced, nearly a century after the end of slavery and the American Civil War. Today, every child growing up in the United States...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Sep 20, 2019 | Energy & Climate
What Georgia Power is proposing: Georgia Power residential customers pay a monthly “mandatory” fee that is hidden on your power bill. All customers are forced to pay this fee no matter how much energy you use. Georgia Power wants to hike your monthly fee...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Sep 4, 2019 | Energy & Climate, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2019 Contact: Chris Carnevale, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, chris@cleanenergy.org, 843-973-2637 Melissa Williams, Sierra Club, melissa.williams@sierraclub.org, 828-545-0443 Adam Winer, Consumer...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Aug 16, 2019 | Press Releases
For Immediate Release August 15, 2019 Contact: Holly Burke, 202-454-4554, holly_burke@lcv.org LCV Action Fund Announces Second Round of 2020 Environmental Majority Makers LCVAF is adding 19 members to program to defend the pro-environment House majority Washington,...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Aug 1, 2019 | Energy & Climate
Background information: Every three years an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is filed with Georgia’s Public Service Commission (PSC). The IRP outlines the plan to deliver energy to millions of customers over a 20-year time frame and lays out a vision for the mix...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jul 14, 2019 | Energy & Climate
AJC: The Jolt: A sing-off for solar energy at the PSC By Jim Galloway Greg Bluestein Tamar Hallerman Next Tuesday, the state Public Service Commission will vote on Georgia Power’s “Integrated Resource Plan,” a three-year blueprint outlining how much power the...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Nov 19, 2018 | Elections, Energy & Climate, Land & Wildlife
The November 6 election welcomed new environmental stewards into the legislature as well as the approval of two state constitutional amendments that will benefit Georgia’s conservation efforts. The Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act (Amendment 1), overwhelmingly approved...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Oct 31, 2018 | Energy & Climate
By Matt Kempner andAnastaciah Ondieki, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution It used to be that millions of Georgians got a bargain on their monthly electric bills, paying Georgia Power residential rates that were nearly 10 percent lower than the national average. But in...
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