Mary Landers

3 days ago | thecurrentga.org | Emily Jones |Mary Landers

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Georgia climate scientists are raising concerns about federal changes they say could hamper research and hurt their overall understanding of climate change. They warn the threat isn’t just to science; farmers, weather forecasters and emergency planners all rely on climate and weather information that’s now at risk.

3 days ago | thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers

Georgia regulators have fined Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America $30,000 for improper disposal of wastewater from its Bryan County electric vehicle manufacturing site. That fine could have been larger under Georgia law, potentially surpassing $7 million. Instead, officials from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America reached a settlement and, on April 25, signed a consent agreement that outlines the alleged violations and the agreed-upon fine.

2 weeks ago | thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers

In Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, about 72,000 drivers put more than 25,000 miles a year on their cars or light-duty trucks. That makes them ripe for significant fuel savings if they switch to an electric vehicle, according to a new report from Coltura, a nonprofit that aims to accelerate the switch from gasoline and diesel to cleaner alternatives. Coltura puts the savings for these high-mileage drivers at almost $4,000 a year.

3 weeks ago | thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers

In the most recent success for its brownfield program, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division in March removed a Chatham County site from its Hazardous Site Inventory List. The 755 acres on the southern bank of the Savannah River between Old Fort Jackson and The Elba Island LNG facility has been redeveloped as the SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex. The SeaPoint site is the latest of 425 brownfield sites cleaned up since Georgia began its brownfield program in 2003.

4 weeks ago | georgiarecorder.com | Mary Landers |Jill Nolin

by Mary Landers, Georgia Recorder April 16, 2025 The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments about a controversial zoning decision that threatens to change the character of an historic Gullah Geechee enclave in McIntosh County.