On August 18, SACE staff and more than 20 allies from around the state took the stand to stop Plant Washington, a new, dirty, coal-fired power plant proposed in Sandersville, GA – vastly outnumbering the plant’s supporters and delivering a strong message of concern about pollution to state regulators. The state Environmental Protection Division (EPD) [...]
The following blog post was written by Claire Pendergrast, SACE summer intern (Atlanta office). I wish her all the best at Dartmouth this Fall and beyond. To round out the final days of my summer internship with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), I had the opportunity to tour Down to Earth Energy’s (DTE) [...]
This post was authored by Eriqah Foreman Williams, Georgia Coal Diversity Organizer, with input from Amelia Shenstone. On July 21 Snapping Shoals EMC members, with support from SACE and our partners, stood up to the EMC’s board of directors to stop Plant Washington and Plant Ben Hill. Snapping Shoals EMC is one of the Georgia [...]
This blog was co-authored by Katie Stokes. This is the last of five blogs in a series where the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has highlighted states throughout our region and their role in the wind industry. Georgia’s wind resource is vast; however, no large-scale wind farms have been built onshore or offshore of the [...]
Me neither. Unfortunately for ratepayers, a report published by consumer advocate Georgia Watch on June 22 suggests that customers of Power4Georgians member EMCs (Cobb, Central Georgia, Snapping Shoals, Upson and Washington EMC) could see their electric rates jump 10-20% when the proposed coal-fired Plant Washington comes online. The report, which only includes the impact of [...]
This Thursday, May 26th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing in Atlanta, Georgia to solicit comments on the proposed and long-awaited rule to set national standards for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury is a potent toxin and exposure can cause a variety of health problems from learning disorders to [...]
Authored by SACE’s High Risk Energy Choices Organizer, Mandy Hancock Last month, I joined the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in Washington, D.C. for their annual DC Days. I was one of nearly a hundred concerned citizens and activists from across the nation that converged in Washington to educate Congress on issues relating to the nuclear [...]
Southern Company, the dinosaur of the utility world, has now declared new coal plants a dead end due to competitive prices of natural gas. The April 18, 2011 Energy & Coal Price Report reports that Southern Company (parent company of Georgia Power) told the North Carolina Coal Institute spring meeting it has no plans to build any new coal plants. Southern [...]
Yesterday, the American Lung Association released the 2011 State of the Air – a report card on air pollution in communities across the nation. Although this year’s report shows that air quality has generally improved over the last few years in most parts of the country, many of our Southeastern states fail to make the [...]
Communities where coal plants are proposed, like Sandersville, GA often feel divided between protecting their environmental health and creating jobs. Now, with the release of a new report by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, they are armed with a new tool to assess job claims that may be too good to be true. The [...]
