Clean energy

By reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, Georgia can rebuild the state’s economy on a solid foundation—with new jobs, less money flowing out of state, and less pollution for healthier communities. The path to achieving all these goals is to take advantage of technologies that exist today to create a clean energy future.

• Environment Georgia supports the production and use of local, environmentally sustainable biopower.

• Environment Georgia supports hybrid vehicle tax credits. To reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, we should promote the use of vehicles that go more miles per gallon of gas.

Keep Georgia green

From the salt marshes of the east coast to the amazing biodiversity of a North Georgia river, our state is home to priceless, natural, historic and recreational areas. Yet many of our most precious places are vulnerable.

• Environment Georgia supports protection of our coast and marshes from offshore drilling and drilling infrastructure.

• Environment Georgia supports only low-impact redevelopment of Jekyll Island’s current facilities.

• Environment Georgia opposes the timbering of trees along Georgia’s roadways, currently done to make room for billboards.

Climate change

Global warming could bring profound changes and threats to our state. From dangerous heat waves and rising sea levels to extreme drought and increased wildfires, the dangers of global warming are cause for immediate concern and action. Yet, Georgia is the only state on the Eastern Seaboard that has failed to take initiative to address climate change.

• Environment Georgia supports the development of a climate action plan (CAP) that would start to identify threats and opportunities in sectors like energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Clean water

Georgia’s waterways are beautiful places to fish, vacation and recreate, and provide drinking water for millions of residents. Every waterway in Georgia should be fishable and swimmable, and everyone should have access to clean sources of drinking water.

• Environment Georgia supports protection for our state’s wells from injections of potentially contaminated surface water.

• Environment Georgia supports water metering that encourages conservation and efficiency.

• Environment Georgia supports using federal economic recovery funds for infrastructure projects that will maximize water efficiency and curb run-off pollution.