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Bottom Line: Former BLM director signs up to lobby for wetlands defense
Environment Cassidy & Associates registered to lobby on issues related to the Okefenokee Swamp for the Southern Environmental Law Center. The swamp spans 438,000 acres across the Florida-Georgia line and a majority of it is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness, but the Southern Environmental Law Center is pushing back…
Power outage from storm affects over 200 people in CSRA
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Over 200 people were still out of power just before noon on Tuesday after the severe weather across the CSRA. Crews responded to a business fire at Saint Joseph Hospice on Edgefield Road on Monday night. Jefferson Energy Cooperative is tracking around 227 without power off...
New hunting opportunities for mobility-challenged hunters in Georgia
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced new events being planned for mobility-challenged hunters this upcoming season. Starting July 15, adaptive hunters will have the opportunity to apply for one of seven New Adaptive Wildlife Management Area (WMA) hunting events on public properties across the state through their Outdoors Beyond […]
Georgia Delegate to the RNC talks security and rhetoric changes in a contentious political season
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — In the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life, security is a front and center topic for those attending the Republican National Convention. Long time Republican Party activist and Columbus resident, Alton Russell, is one of the 59 official delegates from Georgia who attended the convention. He has […]
Victorious Georgia Woman Wins $90K Solar Panel Arbitration Case (video)
Georgia Woman Stuck with Defective Solar Panels Wins Arbitration Case. Stephanie Parker, a resident of Byron, Georgia, was left with an $89,000 bill for a non-functional solar panel system installed by a company that later went out of business. The company, initially known as Power Home Solar and later as Pink Energy, went bankrupt, leaving Parker to deal with the finance company, GoodLeap.
DOE announces nearly $2B to convert facilities for electric vehicles
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.7 billion in grants to help convert 11 shuttered or at-risk auto manufacturing and assembly facilities. The facilities are across eight states – Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia – and will retool or retrofit 11 existing motor vehicle manufacturing facilities and will […] The post DOE announces nearly $2B to convert facilities for electric vehicles appeared first on Transportation Today.
Delegate Diary: '... the best day ever.'
For the first day of the convention, we began with a wonderful breakfast at the resort and a very enlightening and passionate speech by Dr. Ralph Reed. Dr. Reed went over some of the platform topics and stressed the importance of voting for President Trump. We boarded the bus at 11 a.m. with delegates first. I am a whip, and so we needed to be in the arena and ready to go early. As we boarded the bus, a Homeland Security agent checked bags and...
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