by Georgia Conservation Voters | Mar 9, 2022 | Energy & Climate, Legislative, Press & Media
ATLANTA – State Senator Nan Orrock (D-Atlanta) and State Representative Becky Evans (D-Atlanta) have introduced the “Ratepayer Surcharge Relief Act” in both the House and Senate. House Bill 1503 and Senate Bill 607 seek to end the Plant Vogtle monthly surcharge for...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Feb 10, 2022 | Press & Media, Water
For Immediate Release Thursday, February 10, 2022 Contact: Jake Best, 770-342-9339 jake_best@ossoff.senate.gov Sen. Ossoff Introduces Legislation to Protect & Preserve the Chattahoochee River Chattahoochee River supplies 70 percent of metro Atlanta’s...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 19, 2022 | Energy & Climate, Environmental Justice, Press & Media
Dorjan J. Williams Published January 15, 2022 Wind the clocks back to late Summer 2021, and the discussion of combating climate change was seemingly not at the top of anyone’s list of political priorities in the Peach State. Well…that is ‘almost’ anyone – one...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 19, 2022 | Environmental Justice, Press & Media
Rebekah Sager Published January 14, 2022 A small nonprofit in Georgia has uncovered a shocking injustice facing a tiny town in the south of the state. Not only is pollution from several industrial facilities destroying the environment, but the mostly Black and brown...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 19, 2022 | Environmental Justice, Press & Media
Terry Richards Published January 15, 2022 An Atlanta-based conservation group has released a video critical of environmental issues in this Cook County town and their impact on low-income residents. “Abandoned: Greed, Neglect and Environmental Injustice in Adel” was...
by Georgia Conservation Voters | Jan 19, 2022 | Energy & Climate, Press & Media
Mary Landers Published January 4, 2022 If you feel like you keep reading the same story about the expansion of Plant Vogtle, the only new nuclear power under construction in the U.S., you’re not exactly wrong. Reactors number 3 and 4 at Vogtle on the banks of the...
