What was Georgia Power doing at Plant Branch on New Year’s weekend?
Georgia’s coal ash monitoring laws are awfully easy on power companies. The companies get to monitor their heaping piles of coal ash waste piles and ponds themselves. Thank goodness the Altamaha...
View ArticleStill waiting on a call from the EPD (but Georgia Power has been on the phone)
Yesterday (Wednesday, January 6) The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) asked if they could repost R&P’s post from Tuesday, January 5th about Georgia Power pumping water from their Plant...
View ArticleAnd the winners are…..
Current leadership in the Georgia General Assembly never fails to disappoint. This year’s session has been a catalog of hate-baiting legislation against LGBTQ citizens and people of faith (and no...
View ArticleLast night’s greatest hits
As a historian, I am a believer in hearing things for yourself and reading primary documents. Ezra Klein has excerpts from last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Ford Motor...
View ArticleCan Governor Kemp deliver for rural Georgia?
Today marks a new era in Georgia, one that follows a contentious race for the governor’s mansion. Will Brian Kemp and the GA Legislature deliver on promises to rural voters? Rural hospitals are...
View ArticleHow We Have Failed Since September 11, Redux
First posted here on September 10, 2014 How We Have Failed since September 11 Tonight President Obama will address the nation about ISIS and any actions that we may take in response to the horrific...
View ArticleDriving dirty air
The Republican Party, which is now Donald Trump’s Republican Party (DTRP), has long heralded itself as the party of less big government and more local control. They’ve argued that states, cities, and...
View ArticleThe arc of justice is long
Earlier this afternoon the Atlanta Journal Constitution sent out a news alert concerning the resignation of Dean Alford, a member of the Georgia University System’s Board of Regents. Alford was...
View ArticleHow to be both angry and sad at the same time
For the past 17 months and six days, people have said that I am handling suddenly being widowed with grace. Being furious and raging wasn’t going to unwind the fact that a careless driver killed my...
View ArticleGeorgia Recorder-coal ash clean up, aisle seven
Because coal ash and its toxins are forever, the work to protect the health of communities, water and air, natural resources, and recreational places, is never done. The Georgia Recorder has an op/ed I...
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