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| Atlanta, GA ? Transit supporters gathered at the Decatur transit station today to mark recent transit accomplishments and challenges at MARTA, Georgia’s largest transit system. First, transit ridership is up—as reported in Environment Georgia’s new report “Getting on Track” ridership is up eight percent in Georgia. Transit trips in the Metro Atlanta Area accounted for nearly 90 percent of this increase. Second, energy independence is up—people in Georgia saved over 67 million gallons of gasoline in 2008 by riding transit in record numbers. Finally, fares are up—because of funding shortfall’s MARTA raised their fares today, from $1.75 to $2.00. | |
| Groups Urge EPA to Strengthen Ozone "Smog" Standards-- Experts and Advocates Call on EPA to Heed Science, Protect Public Health | |
| Public health, environmental, and river protection groups are urging Georgians to speak out against proposed mercury pollution rules that are significantly weaker than those originally proposed by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD). EPD’s proposal in February of 2006 called for an 80-85 percent mercury pollution reduction by 2010 and a 90 percent reduction by 2015. The current proposal fails to put any firm cap on pollution. It relies on technology upgrades, some of which won’t be required until 2018. | |
| Global warming pollution in Georgia increased by 26% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment Georgia. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. | |
| Atlanta, GA.—Approximately 20-30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Today, Wednesday November 29, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA. This case will decide whether the Clean Air Act authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the pollution that causes global warming. In Georgia the impacts of global warming could have significant impacts around the state, including sea level rise and fluctuating temperatures and weather patterns which would impact the state’s beaches, salt marshes, tourism, coastal real estate, river flow, agriculture and more. | |
| Atlanta, GA—This year’s heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Georgia, according to a new report released today by the Environment Georgia. | |
| Global warming pollution in Georgia jumped 315% between 1960 and 2001, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Georgia. | |
| This year’s heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Georgia, according to a new report released today by the Environment Georgia. | |
| The EPA's new standard fails to adequately protect public health, says environmentalists and public health professionals | |
| Atlanta, GA—President Barack Obama today directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its March 2008 decision to block California and 13 other states from using tailpipe emission standards to reduce global warming pollution from cars and light trucks. These 14-state standards will reduce global warming pollution by more than 450 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction equivalent to eliminating all of the pollution from 84.7 million of today’s cars for a year, according to an Environment Georgia analysis of data from the California Air Resources Board. The 14-state standards will cut gasoline consumption by more than 50 billion gallons by 2020, saving Americans $93 billion at the pump. The President also directed the Department of Transportation to move forward with standards to improve the efficiency of vehicles nationwide. | |
