North DeKalb residents may succeed in keeping a proposed biomass plan out of a densely developed district near their homes, the AJC reports. The article describes the he-said/he-said debate between not-in-by-backyard activists and Southeast Renewable Energy, which has proposed a facility that would generate electricity through the gasification of waste wood products. The plant would be [...]

See update in story! Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposed budget would reduce EPD funding to Clean Air Campaign, an Atlanta nonprofit that helps businesses and individuals to green their commutes, according to Southeast Green. The Clean Air Campaign cut? A whopping $620,000, which has got to be a fair piece of the organization’s budget. I’ve put a note [...]

Agnes Scott College has become the first educational institution to bar idling vehicles on campus, the private Decatur college for women announced today. Trucks and service vehicles on campus will now be required to turn off their engines while making deliveries. “No Idle Zone” signs will be placed in the three areas where service and delivery [...]

French-owned cement giant LaFarge agreed to pay fines and reduce pollution coming out of 13 plants nationwide, including one near Atlanta, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. According to a settlement been the EPA and LaFarge, the company has agreed to shutter a cement kiln that it operates near the Chattahoochee River in northwest Atlanta. I’m [...]

My Media Mayhem column, just posted at the Mother Nature Network: Smooth. Clean. Comfortable. Finally, a ride that says, “I am one with the planet.” The Studebaker EcoSurfer. The green dream of automobiles. It’s got everything you asked for: power, size and a smooth ride. Best of all, the EcoSurfer will stop global warming. By combining [...]

A computer analysis by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that power and paper plants in Rome could be sending deadly pollution to metro Atlanta, Georgia Public Broadcasting reports. If the analysis proves correct, the EPA could require those plants to reduce their pollution. The Rome area plant that’s likely to contribute to Atlanta’s smog and [...]

Will Georgia become a battleground in the worldwide fight against coal pollution? In many ways, it already is: * Georgia Power and its parent, the Southern Co., are among the nation’s largest coal polluters — generating ozone smog and particulate pollution that affects the health of thousands of  metro Atlanta. * Last month, the state Supreme Court refused [...]