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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.

Environmental Justice

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

 
June 18, 2009 - Georgia's Environmental Protection Division released a draft amendment for the Longleaf coal-fired power plant air pollution permit. The amendment purports to address mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. EPD will hold a public hearing on the permit amendment in Early County on July 28. Watch this site for updates.
May 20, 2009 - GreenLaw Executive Director Justine Thompson today commended the wisdom of four Georgia electric membership corporations (EMCs) for their decision to pull the plug on their partnership to build an 854 mega-watt coal-fired electric power plant in Washington County with a consortium of six other EMCs.
Learn more about the case and the irreversible negative impact that the coal-fired Power plant in Early county will have on Georgia's air quality. UPDATE: Georgia's Environmental Protection Division just released a draft amendment to Longleaf's permit.
GreenLaw announced that it has selected two distinguished attorneys and two committed citizen activists to receive its annual environmental awards. The Ogden Doremus Award for Excellence in Environmental Law will go to David F. Walbert, who with a team of attorneys at GreenLaw, obtained the first ruling in the nation to limit carbon dioxide emissions from a proposed coal-fired plant proposed for southwest Georgia. GreenLaw’s Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to John A. Sibley III, former CEO of the Georgia Conservancy and a long-time leader on a broad array of environmental issues. The Environmental Hero Award will honor Jane and Bobby McLendon, leaders of Friends of the Chattahoochee, which has waged a long campaign to oppose a new coal-fired plant in their community of Blakely in Early County.
April 1, 2009 - GreenLaw filed a lawsuit to protect our right to access public records kept by the government and thus ensure government transparency and openness essential to the fairness and due process of our legal system. The lawsuit asks the Superior Court of Fulton County to order the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to produce previously requested documents and to enjoin the EPD “from destroying emails and other public records in violation of the Georgia Open Records Act.”
January 5, 2009 - Dynegy, Inc., one of the nation’s main merchant coal energy producers, announced that it was pulling out of its agreement with New-Jersey-based LS Power to build the Longleaf Energy Station proposed for Early County, Georgia. LS Power, however, maintains that it will continue to seek the pollution permits necessary to construct the plant as planned.
GreenLaw is working with citizen groups across Georgia on a newly proposed 854-megawatt coal-fired power plant to be built in Sandersville, 60 miles east of Macon. Last year, Power4Georgians submitted an application to Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to build a coal-fired power plant at a time when citizens in every state across the nation are questioning the safety and efficiency of generating electric energy from burning pulverized coal.
August 22, 2008 - The Court of Appeals agreed to accept the Application for Discretionary Appeal that had been filed by Dynegy and the State of Georgia challenging the decision of the Fulton County Superior Court denying the permit for a new coal-fired power plant in Georgia. GreenLaw attorneys expressed confidence that the decision of the Superior Court Judge is correct on the points of law. Click here for Summary of the Court's Decision. Click here for Selected Pleadings.
June 18, 2008 - GreenLaw, Sierra Club and Friends of the Chattahoochee welcomed a call by New York City’s Comptroller for an investigation of taxpayer subsidies for risky, old-fashioned coal-burning electric power plants such as the Longleaf Energy Station (Longleaf). In a letter to the United States Treasury Department, New York Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. urged a review of policies that permit tax-exempt bonds to pay for dirty, coal-burning power plants.
 		 
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