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Clean Air

GreenLaw helped halt a coal-fired power plant that would have emitted 9 million tons of Carbon Dioxide - the same emissions as 1.5 million cars driving 12,000 miles each year.

Clean Water

GreenLaw prevented almost one ton of plastic from being dumped into the Oconee River each year by a newsprint recycling company in Dublin.

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GreenLaw’s actions stopped a grain mill from emitting illegal and dangerous particles that covered a disadvantaged African-American community for decades.

 
Join us for the 2010 Environmental Heroes Celebration on Tuesday, October 5, 6-8 pm at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough - Atlantic Station (201 17th St., Atlanta). See our online newsletter for honoree profiles of Ray Anderson, Faye Bush, and Laurie Fowler.
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GreenLaw is working with citizen groups across Georgia on the proposed 854-megawatt coal-fired power plant proposed to be built in Sandersville, 60 miles east of Macon. A hearing before Administrative Law Judge Ronit Walker on the air permits will BEGIN Monday, SEPTEMBER 13, at the Office of State Administrative Hearings, 230 Peachtree Street, Atlanta. The hearing is scheduled for Mondays & Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9:30 - 5:00 p.m., for two to three weeks.
Find out more about the proposal by a New Jersey company to site a massive coal plant in Early County along side the Chattahoochee River. UPDATE: In June 2010, EPD withdrew the permit amendments that were issued in April and agreed to place the permits back out for public comment. On June 30 GreenLaw submitted comments to EPD.
On July 28th, a massive spill from the J&J Corporation in Athens turned Trail Creek in the Oconee River Basin blue. GreenLaw is working with local organizations in Athens to ensure that the creek is properly restored and that this tragedy never happens again.
Led by Cobb EMC to fuel power for Atlanta, Power4Georgians is pursuing yet another coal plant in rural Georgia. This plant is expected to have emissions similar to those of Plant Washington (proposed for Sandersville, Georgia) and also be a guzzler of our state's public water resources.
July 26, 2010 — Public interest groups have won a key legal challenge to two state water permits for the proposed 850-megawatt Plant Washington coal-fired power plant in Sandersville, GA. A Georgia administrative court has ruled that the water withdrawal and water pollution discharge permits issued by Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) for the proposed power plant are both legally flawed.
On June 2, an Administrative Law Judge dismissed an appeal filed by GreenLaw on behalf of Sierra Club and Friends of the Chattahoochee challenging the Longleaf Energy Station (Longleaf), further delaying this project that was first proposed in 2001. The dismissal came after the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) withdrew the permit amendments voluntarily, based on GreenLaw's challenges of May 10. EPD will now send the permit back out for public review. EPD has already set a new public hearing date to be held in Early County on July 1st.
On May 10, 2010, attorneys from GreenLaw and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), acting on behalf of seven citizens’ groups, filed petitions for hearings challenging permits for two major proposed coal-fired power plants in Georgia. In response to an unprecedented wave of permits issued by the state Environmental Protection Division (EPD) in April, the groups are fighting back with important claims against the water and air pollution permits proposed for Plant Washington, to be built in Sandersville, and against the air pollution permit for Longleaf Energy Station, to be built in Early County.
Update (3/25/10): Special interests who seek to bring new coal plants and develop coastal marshlands pushed five pieces of legislation designed to tip the legal process in their favor. On March 25, the only remaining bill failed to make it out of Rules Committee, as it must before crossover day and is considered dead.
Taxpayers in Washington County face serious risks and will likely not reap the financial and employment perks that supporters of the proposed Plant Washington are promising if the $2.1 billion coal-burning plant is built, according to an independent analysis released October 8 by the Ochs Center. That assessment provided by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, a Chattanooga, Tenn.- based non-profit research group, shows that prior projections of new revenue for Washington County from Plant Washington may be off the mark and County taxpayers may be left holding the bag for new infrastructure costs.
GreenLaw's work to protect us all from the harmful impact of coal plant pollution is highlighted by a new report released by Physicians for Social Responsibility which details the true risks of our nation's dependence on coal.
 		 
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