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Clean Air Campaign cut in Perdue’s budget
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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 [...]
EPA forces LaFarge cement cleanup
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 [...]
Jekyll Island development plan scuttled
Well, that was fast. The controversial $120 million redevelopment of parts of Jekyll Island apparently has been scuttled — one day after Gov. Sonny Perdue and others participated in a groundbreaking on the state component of the project.
Critics, led by state Rep. Jeff Chapman, who represents the island’s residents, argued that an agreement between the [...]
One more Beltline walk pic — an important one
I took the photo above earlier this month during a tour of the Beltline’s Northeastern section with Angel Poventud, the uber-activist.
What do we see in the photo? A high-rise at the corner of 10th and Monroe.
As Linda Richman used to say, talk amongst yourselves, and see a personal disclosure below.
And while you talk amongst yourselves, [...]
Chambers bullies Marta on lobbying
The chairwoman of the Georgia Legislature’s Marta oversight committee is threatening to restructure the Marta board to kick members who don’t vote the way she wants them to, Georgia Unfiltered reports.
Marta officials responded sharply to the threat by Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Chamblee, whose latest clash with the agency is over Marta’s efforts to hire lobbyists [...]
EPA press aide: Franklin not up for Region IV job
This post originally appeared on AtlantaUnsheltered on July 23.
EPA Press Secretary Adora Andy says “can’t comment on who is/is not a candidate” for the Region IV administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But she did shoot down talk that Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin is vying for the post.
“This story is not true,” Andy wrote [...]
