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		<title>Drought evaporates in Legislature</title>
		<link>http://gaenvlaw.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/drought-evaporates-in-legislature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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A year ago, legislators couldn&#8217;t wait to show the public they were tackling Georgia&#8217;s epic drought. One of their first votes was to embrace a statewide water plan. And powerful lawmakers soon backed a quixotic bid to claim water from the Tennessee River. The drought still grips parts of north Georgia, and Lake Lanier &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=870&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Bets Big on Biofuels in Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Mack &#124; Wired
Plug-in hybrids and electric cars get all the love in Detroit these days, but Washington isn&#8217;t giving up on biofuel. Uncle Sam is spending millions of dollars to find ways of turning everything from algae to lawn trimmings into fuel as President Obama promises to invest heavily in alternative fuels.
The departments of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=868&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EVENT: David Pope of non-profit environmental advocacy organization, Southern Environmental Law Center, to speak at Skidaway Rotary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Pope of the Southern Environmental Law Center will speak to the Skidaway Rotary Feb. 18 about &#8220;Protecting Coastal Treasures.&#8221; Pope will discuss the unique and important resources on the Georgia coast, the threats they face, and what SELC is doing to protect those resources. The Southern Environmental Law Center is a non-profit, donor-supported environmental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=866&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From Australia: Drought Can Help Georgia Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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David Beasley &#124; Global Atlanta

Paul Dalby traveled to Atlanta from Australia with stories of a drought so severe that rivers stop flowing, lakes turn toxic and farmers abandon their land in frustration.
Dr. Dalby’s  message, delivered as metro Atlanta struggles to map strategies for coping with severe water shortages, focused on his country’s past and America’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=864&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State close to proposing Plant Washington permits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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S. Heather Duncan &#124; Macon.com
A year after Power4Georgians applied for permits to build and operate a new coal-fired power plant in Washington County, the state Environmental Protection Division is still deliberating.
Originally, EPD officials had said they might have permits ready for public comment by the end of 2008, but it has taken a bit longer. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=862&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DeKalb to Earth: Have we got a school for you!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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Kristina Torres &#124; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It will be Georgia’s premier “green” school —- one of the first public schools in the state with a national certification for environmental construction and perhaps the only one with an environmentally themed curriculum.
DeKalb County’s Arabia Mountain High School opens Aug. 10, but officials are already working to get the sparkling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=859&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EPD: Actually, About That PFOA Testing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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John Sepulvado &#124; GPB
For ten months, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division publicly said it was testing Northwest Georgia drinking water for a likely carcinogenic chemical. But now, the EPD says it never tested for PFOA in drinking water intakes.
The revelation comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a drinking water advisory for PFOA.
The chemical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=857&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing draws a crowd</title>
		<link>http://gaenvlaw.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/hearing-draws-a-crowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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Ross Blair &#124; Bryan County News
Hundreds of Bryan and Liberty residents filled the Midway Civic Center on Jan. 27 for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s public meeting and hearing about a proposed wastewater treatment plant near the Laurel View River, which runs through both counties.
A large number of phone calls and 236 letters written to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=855&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus could fund local projects</title>
		<link>http://gaenvlaw.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/stimulus-could-fund-local-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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Diane Wagner &#124; Rome News-Tribune
Local officials are prepared to seek federal stimulus funding for projects, although neither Rome nor Floyd County have prepared comprehensive lists.“I’ve heard other cities are doing it, but who do you give it to? Just send it to the White House?” City Manager John Bennett said.
Provisions in the American Recovery and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=852&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Power: Nuclear critics’ data is flawed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Reeves</dc:creator>
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MARGARET NEWKIRK &#124; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Power fired back at critics this week, saying dire warnings about the cost of its proposal to collect fees upfront for nuclear power expansion were mistaken.
In testimony filed with the state Public Service Commission late Monday, the utility said critics including the PSC’s public advocacy staff had mixed accounting apples [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaenvlaw.wordpress.com&blog=4256178&post=850&subd=gaenvlaw&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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