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Holding the line for clean air

The coal lobby is trying to block the EPA from protecting public health, but we’ve held the line against some of their worst attacks: In March 2011, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill that would have blocked standards for soot, mercury and carbon pollution. In April, the Senate defeated four more bills that would have blocked the EPA from cutting air pollution.

Report | Environment Georgia Research & Policy Center

A Bright Future

Atlanta has vast untapped potential for solar energy. The city is blessed with 2800 hours of sunlight a year, far more than Germany, the world leader in solar power generation.

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News Release | Environment Georgia Research & Policy Center

New report outlines vision for how Atlanta can become the South’s solar energy leader

Atlanta, GA—Environment Georgia Research and Policy Center today released a new report outlining Atlanta's huge potential to become the South's solar leader.

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Jennette Gayer's Interview with Superintendent of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Superintendent Patty Wissinger works for the National Park Service and oversees the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. She is a native North Carolinian and a 28-year National Park Service veteran. She spoke with Environment Georgia’s Jennette Gayer in December 2012.

 

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News Release | Environment Georgia

Georgia’s Parks Receive Valentine’s Day Love

Atlanta – Today, on the 50th anniversary of its original introduction, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced S.338, to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a public land acquisition program that has helped protect places like The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

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News Release | Environment Georgia

President Recommits to Tackling Global Warming in Inaugural Address

Atlanta  – Minutes ago, President Obama concluded his second inaugural address. State Advocate of Environment Georgia, Jennette Gayer, made the following statement in response: 

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