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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.


Clean Water Act
Step 8: Tool Kit




Review tools that will assist you in developing a strategy to address the problems in your watershed.

Guide to Reading Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Monitoring Records for Clean Water Act Violations

Guide to Determining if Industrial Facilities Are Violating the Clean Water Act

A list of definitions for many useful environmental terms.

View a document that gives a summary of Georgia's laws on construction activities.

In addition to building a strong body of information about your watershed, you may want to build a small clean water law library.

In addition the Clean Water Act, there are a number of laws, regulations, and ordinances at the federal, state, and local levels designed to protect and restore the quality of water where you live.

Become familiar with the watershed protection "speak."

Contacts in the Environmental Protection Division.

Request letter to use to request access to open records.

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