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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Attorneys for McIntosh County will appear before the Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday to argue they rightfully thwarted an ongoing referendum last year. Early voting was underway and more than 800 people had already voted when a judge stopped the referendum in September. The question before voters at the time was whether to repeal zoning adopted in 2023 that allowed larger houses in the Hogg Hummock neighborhood on Sapelo Island.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Savannah has long controlled the area’s water supply, treating massive quantities of drinking water and selling what the city didn’t need to neighbors in Chatham, Effingham and Bryan counties. But as development intensifies the area’s thirst, one of the city’s long-time water customers – Effingham County – is poised to become a bigger player in water treatment and delivery.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Good morning! We’re focused on power bills today. They’ve been rising in Georgia in recent years and a new nonprofit aims to address this trend. Meanwhile, after an unprecedented three-year delay, statewide elections return for two seats on the body that regulates utilities in Georgia, the Public Service Commission. Voters can begin to get plugged in to what the two incumbents and six challengers are offering. Questions, tips or concerns?
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
U.S. Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter on Monday introduced legislation to weaken the regulation of harmful air pollution. Carter is the main sponsor of H.R.2288, which aims to nullify the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency titled “Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.” The text of Carter’s bill was not immediately available.
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1 month ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Two environmental groups recently released scorecards that grade members of Congress on their environmental voting record. On evaluations from both the League of Conservation Voters and the Defenders of Wildlife, the two Democratic U.S. senators. from Georgia – Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff – outperformed U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-St. Simons), who serves Coastal Georgia. Overall, Democrats scored higher than Republicans across the country on both scorecards.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Savannah’s Park and Tree Department was poised to remove a dying Southern red oak tree from the city’s iconic Forsyth Park when the tree’s residents made them rethink that plan. “I don’t know if it was the mother owl or the father owl, but they were not too happy about it,” said Scott DeArmey, assistant director of the Savannah Park and Tree Department.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
The Shore Protection Committee on Friday unanimously approved controversial plans to add amenities to St. Simons’ Coast Guard Beach. Glynn County needed permits from the appointed five-member panel in order to move forward with plans that involve alterations to the protected areas of the beachfront park, including plans to install a beach volleyball court, remove trees and fill wetlands.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
On a late February evening, as workers streamed out of the Hyundai site toward the interstate, tanker trucks marked “non-potable water” joined the traffic headed north on U.S. 280. For months, the companies building Hyundai’s electric vehicles and the batteries to power them have trucked millions of gallons of wastewater from the manufacturing facility in Ellabell to private treatment facilities, both in Georgia and beyond state lines.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
McIntosh County appears poised to postpone a planned readoption of its controversial 2023 zoning code that allowed for larger houses to be built in Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock community and led to ongoing legal action against the county. The county planning and zoning commission was scheduled to take up the issue on Tuesday, but on Friday the county commission announced a special called meeting for noon on Monday. On the agenda: a resolution to defer the reaffirmation of the zoning.
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2 months ago | 
thecurrentga.org | Mary Landers |Mary Landers ReporterReporter
Environmental advocates are pushing back against a project that plans to use state funds to add amenities to St. Simons’ Coast Guard Beach. Glynn County qualified for a $3 million grant from the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program to pay for renovations at the popular beach site. The county plans to expand and improve the parking lot at the site, level a sand dune to install a beach volleyball court, remove trees and fill wetlands.
