An interesting environmental justice story today in the Gainesville Times about the mainly black residents of Newtown, whose neighbors increasingly are polluting industry: Surrounded by steam and massive soybean storage bins, Matt Pearson is the affable guy at the helm of one of Gainesville’s most profitable and polluting industries. The white-tanked welcome mat at the south end [...]

A controversial $170 million development project in Jekyll Island state park breaks ground today, Georgia Public Broadcasting reports. The approved project is something of a compromise between the Jekyll Island Authority and developers on one hand, and current residents, good government types and conservationists on the other. While critics were able to trim some parts of the [...]