While three new coal-fired power plants appear to be getting the go ahead in Georgia, Canada’s environment minister announced last week that the country plans to retire all of its coal-energy behemoths. Of course, Canada’s a lot less dependent on coal than Georgia is. While Georgia Power and other electric utilities in the state get more [...]

The Mother Nature Network column published my Political Pundit column today about President Obama’s opportunity to rally the nation behind clean energy. The column argues that Obama’s congressional party mates  have more to gain by using the BP oil spill as a pivot point toward fighting climate change  than they would gain from being careful [...]

As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico and just days before a major U.S. Senate vote on legislation that would block new rules requiring cars and light trucks to use less oil, a new analysis finds that the Senate measure would increase Georgia’s dependence on oil by more than 16 million gallons [...]

One Georgia environmental leader was quick out of the hatch to blast President Obama’s announcement this morning that he wants to allow drilling off Georgia, as well as most of the Southeast’s Atlantic coast. “Environment Georgia is outraged by today’s announcement on offshore drilling that would open up Georgia’s coast to oil and gas exploration and [...]

Georgia Power rendering of proposed Plant Vogtle Southern Co.’s proposed expansion of Plant Vogtle near Augusta is expected to become the first nuclear power plant out the gate today with a federal loan guarantee in an expected rush toward more nuclear plants spurred by need to cut greenhouse gas pollution. The Associated Press reported over the [...]

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 [...]

It sounds non-sensical but “global warming” could be contributing to the snowstorms like the one that hit Atlanta today. Climate modelers have long predicted that much of the Eastern seaboard is likely to see more rain and snow over the next few years because warmer temperatures pull more moisture in the atmosphere that eventually will return [...]

Here’s a provocative argument that draws a link between the issue of climate change and sprawling metro areas like Atlanta. In an interview with Grist, prominent environmental editor Alex Steffen argues that environmental groups are largely ignoring a key battle line in the debate over climate change. Cities sit on one side of that divide and [...]

Eight days of civil disobedience at the Coal River mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia has largely notice from the national media. But it has all the markings of a significant act of civil disobedience. There’s a cause: The fight against more mountaintop removal of coal, which by any measure is an extremely destructive form of [...]

Top brass discussed the potential impact of climate change on national security and military assets at a meeting of the American Meterological Society Tuesday. Rear Admiral David Titley said there is strong evidence that old arctic ice has melted much faster than new ice can replace it. It’s a trend that scientists predict could someday yield [...]